Movie: Merciless Blade

Top 10 Billed Cast

Kusuo Abe
阿部九洲男

Shinobu Chihara
千原しのぶ

Kensaku Hara
原健策

Haruyo Ichikawa
市川春代

Kunio Kaga
加賀邦男

Ryōsuke Kagawa
香川良介

Chiezo Kataoka
片岡千恵蔵

Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Gorō Kawabe
河部五郎

Noboru Kiritachi
霧立のぼる

Akira Kishii
岸井明

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    The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

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    1953-04-23

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