Shadow Hunters
6.3
“Sudden Death Comes in Threes!”
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
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2 films
Cast
33 people
Yūjirō Ishihara
Muroto Jubei
Known for
Crazed Fruit
Ruriko Asaoka
Chitose
Known for
Goyokin
Toshio Masuda
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Kenjiro Hirose
Ryōhei Uchida
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Masahiko Kobayashi
Mitsuji Kanau
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Toshio Masuda Director · Kaneo Ikegami Screenplay Takao Saito Story
United States release October 17, 1973 · Produced in Japan · Production TOHO
Production
Ishihara Productions
Production
TOHO
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
影狩り
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 10, 1972
Theatrical
United States · October 17, 1973
New York City, New York
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