Sword for Hire

Sword for Hire

1952 ja 135 minutes

Rating: 6.7

Plot

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.

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Cast

Rentaro Mikuni

Rentaro Mikuni

Tachibana Jurata

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Sasa Hayatenosuke

Danshirō Ichikawa

Danshirō Ichikawa

Kagami Yakeiji

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Oryo

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

Shinobu Asaji

Shinobu Asaji

Kano

Yoshio Kosugi

Yoshio Kosugi

Sugisaku Aoyama

Sugisaku Aoyama

Eijirō Tōno

Eijirō Tōno

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Kokuten Kōdō

Kokuten Kōdō

Kichijirō Ueda

Kichijirō Ueda

Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko Miyoshi

Haruo Nakajima

Haruo Nakajima

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