The Lightning Sword (1962)
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
Released: Dec 08, 1962
Runtime: 72 minutes
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Stars: Tomisaburō Wakayama, Shigeru Amachi, Ryûzô Shimada, Mieko Kondō, Eigorō Onoe, Jun'ichirō Narita
Crew: Minoru Inuzuka (Screenplay), Bin Kato (Director), Teinosuke Kinugasa (Screenplay), Mitsuzô Miyata (Editor), Shozo Honda (Director of Photography), Shigeru Katô (Art Direction)