Sword of the Beast (1965)
With Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kantarō Suga, Mikijirō Hira, Takeshi Katō, Yōko Mihara, Kunie Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno
Directed by Hideo Gosha
Sword of the Beast (Japanese: 獣の剣, Hepburn: Kedamono no ken; also called Samurai Gold Seekers) is a 1965 jidaigeki film co-written and directed by Hideo Gosha. Set in 1857 at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the story follows a fugitive samurai who has killed a counselor in his clan and is on the run. He gets involved in a scheme to poach gold from the shōgun's mountain, where he encounters another samurai who is also there to poach gold.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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