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In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin. Based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, Kill! playfully tweaks samurai film convention, borrowing elements from established chanbara classics and seasoning them with a little Italian western.
Original Release
06/22/1968
US Release
03/10/1969
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tatsuya Nakadai | Genta |
Etsushi Takahashi | Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata) |
Yuriko Hoshi | Chino Kajii |
Tadao Nakamaru | Magobei Shôda |
Akira Kubo | Monnosuke Takei |
Shigeru Kôyama | Tamiya Ayuzawa |
Eijirô Tôno | Hyogo Moriuchi |
Shin Kishida | Jurota Arao |
Atsuo Nakamura | Tetsutaro |
Nami Tamura | Yô |
Directors
Writers
Kihachi Okamoto, Akira Murao, Shûgorô Yamamoto
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tatsuya Nakadai | Genta |
Etsushi Takahashi | Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata) |
Yuriko Hoshi | Chino Kajii |
Tadao Nakamaru | Magobei Shôda |
Akira Kubo | Monnosuke Takei |
Shigeru Kôyama | Tamiya Ayuzawa |
Eijirô Tôno | Hyogo Moriuchi |
Shin Kishida | Jurota Arao |
Atsuo Nakamura | Tetsutaro |
Nami Tamura | Yô |
Hideyo Amamoto | Gendayu Shimada |
Yoshio Tsuchiya | Shinroku Matsuo |
Isao Hashimoto | Kônosuke Fujii |
Akira Hamada | Denzô Nishimura |
Takeo Chii | Yaheiji Yoshida |
Seishirô Kuno | Daijirô Masataka |
Ben Hiura | Busuke |
Susumu Kurobe | Kinsaburo Ayuzawa |
Masao Imafuku | Doshin - Monk |
Hiroshi Hasegawa | Injured Ronin |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |