Kenpu Renpeikan (1944)
剣風練兵館
Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro, the famed Shindo Munen Ryu swordsmen of Renpeikan in Edo. Katsura is initially not welcomed by the other, senior dojo followers. Undeterred, he focuses on improving his skill not only in swordsmanship but also learning how to repel the foreign British and American ships that threaten their domain.
- Date of release
- 1944-01-03
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Director
- Kiyohiko Ushihara
Casting
- Tsumasaburō Bandō — Katsura Kogoro
- Shinobu Araki — Saito Yakuro
- Tsushima Keiichiro — Shintaro
- Mitsusaburō Ramon — Utanosuke
- Ryūnosuke Tsukigata — Sagawa Hikokuro
- Kusuo Abe — Amano Hachiro
- Kōichi Katsuragi — Mito Noriaki
- Shōzō Nanbu — Yoshida Shoin
- Seishiro Hara — Katogi Tozo
- Hiroshi Mizuno — Iwakichi
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