Sword of the Beast

Sword of the Beast , Kedamono no ken? , also called Samurai Gold Seekers is a 1965 jidaigeki film cowritten and directed by Hideo Gosha. Set in 1857 at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the story follows a fugitive samurai whos killed a counselor in his clan, to a mountain where he meets another samurai who is poaching gold.

Gennosuke finds Jurota and Taka, but too late to stop their murder by their own clan. Instead he takes revenge of the gathered clansmen and mercenaries. After the battle is won, Daizaburo and Misa see the hypocrisy of the clan system mirrored in Gennosukes situation and rescind their vendetta allowing Gennosuke to leave without a fight.

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