柴英三郎と五社英雄が共同で脚本を執筆、『三匹の侍』でTV界から映画界に殴り込みをかけた五社英雄監督のアクション時代劇。家老の口車に乗せられて城代家老を斬り、さすらいの旅を続けるニヒルな浪人と、藩命を受けて天領の山中で砂金を盗掘している下級武士を主人公に、壮烈なチャンバラが迫力十分に描かれる。
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
- Director
- Hideo Gosha
- Writers
- Eizaburo Shiba, Hideo Gosha
Themes19th centuryedo periodfeudal japangamblinggold
