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Directed by | Tadashi Imai |
Produced by | Hiroshi Okawa |
Written by |
Norio Nanjo Naoyuki Suzuki Yoshikata Yoda |
Starring | Kinnosuke Nakamura |
Cinematography | Makoto Tsuboi |
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122 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Bushido, Samurai Saga (武士道残酷物語 Bushidō zankoku monogatari?) is a 1963 Japanese action film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear.
The story covers seven generations of a family, from the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate at the start of the 17th century to the early 1960s, and the extremes various members went to out of complete devotion and unswerving loyalty to lord, country or company.