Merciless Blade

Genre: Action Drama History
Run time: 111 min
Premiere: 1953. April 23.

Director: Kunio Watanabe
Writer: Kunio Watanabe Kaizan Nakazato
Starring: Kusuo Abe Shinobu Chihara Kensaku Hara Haruyo Ichikawa

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

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Kusuo Abe

Shinobu Chihara

Kensaku Hara

Haruyo Ichikawa

Kunio Kaga

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Chiezō Kataoka

Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Gorō Kawabe

Noboru Kiritachi

Akira Kishii

Mitsuko Miura

Kunitaro Sawamura

Eijirō Kataoka

Eitarō Shindō

Kyoji Sugi

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Ko Yamamuro

Art

Heikichi Kakui

Art Direction

Crew

Takashi Watanabe

Cinematography

Directing

Kunio Watanabe

Director

Lighting

Kenji Tanaka

Lighting Technician

Sound

Kenjirō Tōjō

Sound

Eiichi Yamada

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kunio Watanabe

Screenplay

Kaizan Nakazato

Story

Art

Heikichi Kakui

Art Direction

Crew

Takashi Watanabe

Cinematography

Directing

Kunio Watanabe

Director

Lighting

Kenji Tanaka

Lighting Technician

Sound

Kenjirō Tōjō

Sound

Eiichi Yamada

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kunio Watanabe

Screenplay

Kaizan Nakazato

Story