Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
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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.
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Cast
38 people
Chiezo Kataoka
Genpachi
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Daisuke Katō
Genta
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Eijirō Kataoka
Sakawa Kojūrō
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Kunisada Chuji
Motoharu Ueki
Jirō
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Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
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Chizuru Kitagawa
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Yuriko Tashiro
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Eitarō Shindō
Pilgrim
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Chikamatsu Monogatari
Toranosuke Ogawa
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Kunio Kaga
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Tomu Uchida Director · Fuji Yahiro Writer Shintarō Mimura Writer
First release February 27, 1955 · Produced in Japan · Original title 血槍富士
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
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Original title
血槍富士
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · February 27, 1955
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
September 24, 2012 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Tomu Uchida Films (Moscow)
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