Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
5.4
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
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Cast
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Kanjūrō Arashi
Known for
Jigoku
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Ryūzaburō Nakamura
Known for
Ghost Story of Yotsuya
Nobuo Nakagawa
Tadashi Nishimoto
Mitsugi Okura
Jiro Fujishima
Ryûzaburô Nakamura
Kinuko Obata
Also in
Broken Blossoms
Heiji, the Detective
Keiji Miyazawa
Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Jūzaburō Akechi
Also in
Ghost of the Pearl Divers
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
Shigeo Orimo
Nobuo Nakagawa Director · Yoshihiro Ishikawa Screenplay Jiro Fujishima Screenplay
First release April 29, 1959 · Produced in Japan · Original title 影法師捕物帖
Production
Shintoho Company
Production
Japan
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Original title
影法師捕物帖
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · April 29, 1959
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No release date listed for United States.
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