Merciless Blade (1953)
大菩薩峠
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
- Date of release
- 1953-04-23
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History
- Director
- Kunio Watanabe
Casting
- Kusuo Abe
- Shinobu Chihara
- Kensaku Hara
- Haruyo Ichikawa
- Kunio Kaga
- Ryōsuke Kagawa
- Chiezo Kataoka — Ryûnosuke Tsukue
- Gorō Kawabe
- Noboru Kiritachi
- Akira Kishii
- Mitsuko Miura
- Kunitaro Sawamura
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