A 74-minute fever dream where bandits have better hair than you.
Stunts
Pre-CGI sword fights that'll make you flinch at the insurance liability.
Costume
Bandit king drip that somehow still slaps almost 90 years later.
Director
Eisuke Takizawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 1930s jidaigeki that blended leftist politics with populist entertainment, often slipping past censors who missed the class warfare between sword fights.
Director Eisuke Takizawa was known for kinetic camera movement rare in early Japanese cinema—watch for the tracking shots that predate Kurosawa's famous techniques by a decade.
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