Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)
Overview
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
Cast
Chiezo Kataoka
Genpachi
Daisuke Katō
Genta
Eijirō Kataoka
Sakawa Kojūrō
Motoharu Ueki
Jirō
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Tōzaburō
Chizuru Kitagawa
Shamisen Player
Yuriko Tashiro
Otane
Eitarō Shindō
Pilgrim
Toranosuke Ogawa
Kunio Kaga
Unpei Yokoyama
Kyoji Sugi
Atsushi Watanabe
Yoshio Yoshida
Masao Oda
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