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Souls in the Moonlight II

6.6 105 mins Action   Drama   1958
Toei Company  
Director(s): Tomu Uchida

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.

Casts of Souls in the Moonlight II

Chiezō Kataoka

as Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Michiyo Kogure

as Otoku

Yumiko Hasegawa

as Otoyo

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

as Shichibei

Kunio Kaga

as Yonetomo

Kōtarō Satomi

as Shintaro Mochizuki

Isao Yamagata

as Kamio Shuzen

Eijirō Kataoka

as Kinzo

Satomi Oka

as Omatsu

Yoshiharu Ueki

as Kuratao / Ichitaro

Harumi Urazato

as Okinu

Sadako Sawamura

as Otsuno

Kusuo Abe

as Kanbei Utabe

Akitake Kōno

as Momozo Zenriki

Bokuzen Hidari

as Doan

Ryōsuke Kagawa

as Mochizuki Sobei

Akira Kishii

as Yohachi

Kinnosuke Nakamura

as Utsugi Hyoma

Chiyonosuke Azuma

as Komai Noto-no-kami

Katsuya Ishimaru

as Yohei

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