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Eight Views of Samurai

Eight Views of Samurai

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📜 Overview: Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.
🌏 Languages Available: Japanese
📆 Date Released: 1958-05-27
⌚ Running Time: 95 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 6.0

Beloved Cast

Utaemon Ichikawa original image
Utaemon Ichikawa
Kotaro Satomi original image
Kotaro Satomi
Yumiko Hasegawa original image
Yumiko Hasegawa
Keiko Yukishiro original image
Keiko Yukishiro
Eitarō Shindō original image
Eitarō Shindō
Takashi Shimura original image
Takashi Shimura
Minoru Chiaki original image
Minoru Chiaki
Shunji Sakai original image
Shunji Sakai
Susumu Fujita original image
Susumu Fujita
Kunio Kaga original image
Kunio Kaga
Kusuo Abe original image
Kusuo Abe
Jun Usami original image
Jun Usami
Chinami Katsuura original image
Chinami Katsuura
Kazuo Ishii original image
Kazuo Ishii
Shin Tokudaiji original image
Shin Tokudaiji
Junko Takashima original image
Junko Takashima
Akiko Kazami original image
Akiko Kazami
Eriko Yoshida original image
Eriko Yoshida
Ririko Nishitsuji original image
Ririko Nishitsuji
Kunijirō Yanagi original image
Kunijirō Yanagi
Eijirō Sekine original image
Eijirō Sekine
Ryūtarō Aoyagi original image
Ryūtarō Aoyagi
Fumio Nakano original image
Fumio Nakano
Hachiro Yamauchi original image
Hachiro Yamauchi
Momonosuke Ichikawa original image
Momonosuke Ichikawa
Yujiro Omi original image
Yujiro Omi
Hideo Shimada original image
Hideo Shimada
Junpei Arishima original image
Junpei Arishima

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