(新書・忍びの者)

Content: [Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.

Countries:

Japan

Genres:

Action

Runtime:

86 minutes

Year:

1966

Directors:

Kazuo Ikehiro

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Production companies:

Daiei Film

Actors:

Kojiro Kasumi

Akane

Chitose

Sadayu

Crews:

Director

Director of Photography

Sound

Screenplay

Original Music Composer