Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966)
Original title: 丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn is a 1966 Japanese-language action movie directed by Hideo Gosha, with a running time of 1h 31m. It stars Kinnosuke Nakamura, Keiko Awaji and Isao Kimura.
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
Cast
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Samanosuke / Tange Sazen
- Keiko Awaji as Fuji
- Isao Kimura as Yagyu Genzaburo
- Seizaburō Kawazu as Guraku
- Tetsuro Tamba as Lord Tsushima Yagyu
- Wakaba Irie as Hagino
- Ryutaro Otomo as Echizen
- Bin Amatsu as Taiken
- Takuya Fujioka as Yokichi
- Kiyoshi Hitomi
- Minoru Hodaka as Shogun
- Yoshinobu Kaneko