Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.

• Release date
• April 21, 1963
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Daisuke Itō

Cast

Hashizo Ōkawa Gonza Shirō Ōsaka Shunji Sakai

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Kiyoshi Matsukawa

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Hajime Nagoya

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Heitaro Gori

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Hideo Shimada

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Kōshirō Harada