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.
平幹二朗
as Yuuki Gennosuke
加藤剛
as Jurata Yamane
岩下志麻
as Taka
田中邦衛
as Tanji
東野英治郎
as Minister
木村俊恵
as Misa
菅貫太郎
as Daizaburo
三原葉子
as Osen
天知茂
as Vice-Counselor
浜田寅彦
as
Hajime Araki
as
Tsuyoshi Date
as