The Lightning Sword
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Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
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Cast
36 people
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Shinjiro of Misaki
Known for
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Black Rain
Shigeru Amachi
Higashinosuke Yamagata
Known for
Jigoku
Ghost Story of Yotsuya
Ryūzō Shimada
Tokusaburō
Known for
The Tale of Zatoichi
Daimajin
Mieko Kondō
Oyo
Known for
New Tale of Zatoichi
Eigorō Onoe
Yamagoro
Known for
Ugetsu
The Tale of Zatoichi
Jun'ichirō Narita
Asanosuke
Known for
Zatoichi the Fugitive
Chitose Maki
Orryu
Known for
New Tale of Zatoichi
Reiko Fujiwara
Kaede / Fumie
Known for
Zatoichi on the Road
Irezumi
Yūji Nanto
Takuro
Also in
The Blue Sky Maiden
The Domain
Ikuko Mōri
Oharu
Known for
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Toshio Chiba
Tomizo
Known for
The Tale of Zatoichi
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Known for
Ugetsu
Sansho the Bailiff
Bin Katō Director · Minoru Inuzuka Screenplay Teinosuke Kinugasa Screenplay
First release December 8, 1962 · Produced in Japan · Original title 抜打ち鴉
Production
Daiei Film
Production
Japan
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Original title
抜打ち鴉
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · December 8, 1962
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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