Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963)
Original title: 武士道残酷物語
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai is a 1963 Japanese-language history movie directed by Tadashi Imai, with a running time of 2h 2m. It stars Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ineko Arima and Satomi Oka.
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
Cast
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu
- Ineko Arima as Maki, Shuzo's wife
- Satomi Oka as Fuji
- Kyôko Kishida as Lady Hagi
- Misako Watanabe as Yasu, Sajiemon's wife
- Yoshiko Mita as Kyoko Hitomi
- Yoshi Katō as Takahiro Hori
- Kei Satō as Saburobei Konoe
- Masao Oda as Gohei
- Eijirō Yanagi as Gonnosuke Shizuta
- Shinjirō Ehara as Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori
- Isao Kimura as Hirotaro Iguchi