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Trail of Blood

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Original title

Mushukunin Mikogami no Jôkichi: Kiba wa hikisaita

Year

1972

Running time

88 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kazuo Ikehiro

Screenwriter

Ituhiro Ishimatsu. Story: Saho Sasazawa

Cast

Music

Takeo Watanabe

Cinematography

Yasushi Ichihara, Kazuo Miyagawa

Producer

Toho, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd. Distributor: Toho

Genre

Action. Drama | Revenge. Samurai. Feudal Japan

Synopsis

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor. A woman watches.

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Trail of Blood

1972

Kazuo Ikehiro