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The Master Spearman

5.2 99 mins Drama   1960
Toei Company  
Director(s): Tomu Uchida

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the inhumanity of feudal obligations, and Uchida’s direction slyly satirizes the contemporary cinematic audience, whose taste for onscreen bloodshed is mirrored in a crowd gathering to watch the protagonist’s planned suicide. The Master Spearman is imbued with Uchida’s characteristic blend of dark humor and stylized action, and Ryutaro Otomo gives an admirable performance in the lead.

Casts of The Master Spearman

Ryutaro Otomo

as Takasada Tomita

Chikage Awashima

as Sakon Murayama

Hiromi Hanazono

as Umeme

Isao Yamagata

as Mitsunari Ishida

Kensaku Hara

as Kazunobu Tomita

Masao Oda

as Kichibei

Eitarō Ozawa

as Ieyasu Tokugawa

Chiezō Kataoka

as Toshinaga Maeda

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