Sword of Seduction
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Sword of Seduction (1964, Japan) is a Samurai film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro.
- Featured in: Sleepy Eyes of Death: Vol. 1 (4 DVD)
Main Details
- Released on October 17, 1964
- Color
- Running time: 87 minutes
- Production and Distribution Co.: Daiei Studios
- Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
- Written by Kimiyoshi Hoshikawa, from a novel by Renzaburô Shibata
- Starring: Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Ai, Akira Amemiya
Plot Summary
- This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the quite reluctant hero refuse to come to the assistance of a Japanese Christian in an age of both proselytizing and persecution, but later come around and render the services of his sword following a series of events, with the involvement of a malevolent princess, that lay to bare hypocrisy in many forms.