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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

1963·122 min

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

Directed by Tadashi Imai

HistoryActionDrama

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.

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Kinnosuke Nakamura

Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu

Maki, Shuzo's wife

Fuji

Lady Hagi

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Toshirō Mayuzumi

Original Music Composer

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Yasu, Sajiemon's wife

Kyoko Hitomi

Takahiro Hori

Saburobei Konoe

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Gonnosuke Shizuta

Shinjirō Ehara

Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori

Hirotaro Iguchi

Shibiku-Shosuke Hori

Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori

Sato, Shuzo's daughter

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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963) is about after a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.

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Tadashi Imai directed Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963).

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