Souls in the Moonlight II
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This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
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Part of Souls In The Moonlight Collection
3 films
Cast
52 people
Chiezo Kataoka
Ryûnosuke Tsukue
Also in
13 Assassins
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Michiyo Kogure
Otoku
Known for
Drunken Angel
A Geisha
Tomu Uchida
Hiroshi Okawa
Minoru Miki
Katsuhito Inomata
Yumiko Hasegawa
Otoyo
Also in
Works of the Fish Man
Samurai Hawk
Hiroshi Ookawa
Kaizan Nakazato
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Shichibei
Known for
Sanshiro Sugata
Eizaburo Shiba
Shumei Onishi
Tomu Uchida Director · Eizaburo Shiba Screenplay Katsuhito Inomata Screenplay
First release April 20, 1958 · Produced in Japan · Original title 大菩薩峠 第二部
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
大菩薩峠 第二部
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · April 20, 1958
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
September 27, 2012 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Tomu Uchida Films (Moscow)
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