Kihachi Okamoto Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( Kiru / Dai-bosatsu tôge / Akage / Samurai ) ( Kill! / The Sword of Doom / Red Lion (Red Hair) / Samurai Assassin )

Kihachi Okamoto Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kiru / Dai-bosatsu tôge / Akage / Samurai
Alternate Title: Kill! / The Sword of Doom / Red Lion (Red Hair) / Samurai Assassin
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
459 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1966 - 1969 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Kihachi Okamoto

Written By:
Kihachi Okamoto
Akira Murao
Shinobu Hashimoto
Kaizan Nakazato
Sakae Hirosawa
Jiromasa Gunji

Actors:
Tatsuya Nakadai ..... Genta
Etsushi Takahashi ..... Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)
Yuriko Hoshi ..... Chino Kajii
Naoko Kubo ..... Tetsutaro Oikawa
Tadao Nakamaru ..... Magobei Shôda
Akira Kubo ..... Monnosuke Takei
Shigeru Kôyama ..... Tamiya Ayuzawa
Eijirô Tono ..... Hyogo Moriuchi
Nami Tamura ..... Yô
Yoshio Tsuchiya ..... Shinroku Matsuo
Isao Hashimoto ..... Kônosuke Fujii
Akira Hamada ..... Denzô Nishimura
Takeo Chii ..... Yaheiji Yoshida
Seishirô Kuno ..... Daijirô Masataka
Ben Hiura ..... Busuke
Tatsuya Nakadai ..... Ryunosuke Tsukue
Yûzô Kayama ..... Hyoma Utsuki
Michiyo Aratama ..... Ohama
Yôko Naitô ..... Omatsu
Tadao Nakamaru ..... Isamu Kondo
Kei Satô ..... Kamo Serizawa
Kô Nishimura ..... Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'
Ichirô Nakatani ..... Bunnojo Utsuki
Kunie Tanaka ..... Senkichi
Takamaru Sasaki ..... Ishinsai Nakamura
Ryôsuke Kagawa ..... Dansho Tsukue
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Omatsu's grandfather
Eisei Amamoto ..... (as Hideyo Amamoto)
Akio Miyabe ..... Toshizo Ogata
Yasuzô Ogawa ..... Yohachi
Kyoji Hayakawa
Atsuko Kawaguchi ..... Okinu
Masanobu Oki
Kanzô Uni ..... (as Kanzo Uni)
Koji Kakiki
Hirohito Kimura
Shoji Kosugi
Shin Ibuki
Seishirô Kuno
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Ko Tanaka
Yasuharu Okoyama
Kinnosuke Takamatsu ..... Old Pilgrim
Susumu Watanabe
Jiro Makino
Chigako Sono
Toshirô Mifune ..... Toranosuke Shimada
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Tôru Ibuki
Ryû Kuze
Toshirô Mifune ..... Gonzo
Shima Iwashita ..... Tomi
Etsushi Takahashi ..... Ichinose Hanzo
Minori Terada ..... Sanji
Nobuko Otowa ..... Oharu
Yûko Mochizuki ..... Ume
Jitsuko Yoshimura ..... Oyoo
Kawai Okada ..... Osode
Shigeru Kôyama ..... Staff Chief Aragaki
Eisei Amamoto ..... Dr. Gensai (as Hideyo Amamoto)
Tokue Hanazawa ..... Komatora
Shin Kishida ..... Secretary Sokichi
Hideo Sunazuka ..... Amegaeru
Bokuzen Hidari ..... Gohei
Goro Mutsumi ..... White Hair advance party leader (as Goro Mutsu)
Toshirô Mifune ..... Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Keiju Kobayashi ..... Einosuke Kurihara
Michiyo Aratama ..... Okiku / Kukuhime
Yûnosuke Itô ..... Hoshino Kenmotsu
Eijirô Tono ..... Seigoro Kisoya
Tatsuyoshi Ehara ..... Ichigoro Hayama
Tadao Nakamaru ..... Shigezo Inada
Shiro Otsude ..... Kaname Kojima
Yoshio Inaba ..... Keijiro Sumita
Akihiko Hirata ..... Sohei Masui
Eisei Amamoto ..... Matazaburo Hagiwara (as Hideyo Amamoto)
Ikio Sawamura ..... Tatsukichi Bisenya
Chôtarô Tôgin ..... Seiichi Morikawa
Yasuzô Ogawa ..... Ronin
Masanari Nihei ..... Ronin

Synopsis:

Kill! (1968)
Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up a local officials complex game of murder and betrayal.

The Sword of Doom (1966)
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade. Ryunosuke accepts her offer, but kills her husband in the match. Over time, Ryunosuke is pursued by the brother of the man he killed. The brother trains with the master fencer Shimada. In the meantime, however, Ryunosuke earns the enmity of the band of assassins he runs with, and it becomes a question of who shall face him in final conflict.

Red Lion (1969)
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.

Samurai Assassin (1965)
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled Japan for 300 years. They suspect a traitor in their midst, and their suspicions fall on Niiro, an impoverished ronin who dreams of samurai status, and Kurihara, an aristocratic samurai who befriends Niiro.

Kihachi Okamoto (Feb 17,1923 - Feb 19, 2005) was one of Japan's greatest screenwriters and directors, directing almost 40 films across a wide range of genres. This special 4 dvd collector's box focuses on his brilliant Samurai films - the rousing heroics of 'Samurai Assassin', a comedy of errors in 'Red Lion', the sly humour of 'Kill!' or the genre bending darkness of 'Sword Of Doom' - these four films are amongst the best samurai cinema has to offer.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 16 July, 2010.