The Last Samurai (1974)
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Drama
Action
Cast & Crew
Hideki Takahashi
Sugi Toranosuke
Ken Ogata
Nakamura Hanjiro
Teruhiko Saigō
Okita Soji
Masaomi Kondo
Iba Hachiro
Keiko Matsuzaka
Reiko
Kiwako Taichi
Ohide
Asao Sano
Toru Minegishi
Takahiro Tamura
Ikemoto Mohei
Taketoshi Naitō
Jūkei Fujioka
Kenji Imai
Tōru Abe
Reiko Kasahara
Ryūtarō Tatsumi
Jiro Sakagami
Hirokazu Inoue
Riki Harada
Taku Kido
Sōnosuke Oda
Yukio Horikita
Kenji Misumi
Director
Yoshiharu Mishima
Executive Producer
Takeo Kunihiro, Kenji Misumi
Screenplay
