The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
Japan
Crime,
History
86 minutes
1964
Tokuzō Tanaka
Daiei Film
2014
6.5
1973
6.5
2009
6.5
1959
0.0
1976
5.3
1965
6.0
1987
2.8
1967
0.0
1967
0.0
1960
0.0
1997
7.7
1993
7.5
2018
7.0
2018
7.0
1972
10.0
1961
0.0
1966
5.0
1965
6.3
2003
8.0
2000
7.1