The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
駿河遊侠傳 破れ鉄火
The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords at 123 Movies. The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
- Genre: Crime, History
- Country: Japan
- Director: Tokuzō Tanaka
- Cast: Shintarō Katsu, Yukiko Fuji, Hiroshi Mizuhara, Saburo Date, Taizō Fukami, Ryūtarō Gomi, Hikosaburo Kataoka, Kei Tani, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Yoshio Yoshida, Shirō Ōtsuji, San'emon Arashi, Mitsuyo Asaka, Goro Hidaka, Jushiro Kobayashi, Daimaru Nakata, Raketto Nakata, Shigeru Satoi,
