Kagegari

[Machine Translation] [Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection] Commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yujiro Ishihara! Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection of the entertainment works of the greatest star born in the Showa era! They came to smell the blood! Three swords of the shadowy, the ruthless, and the bold! A film adaptation of the popular comic by Taro Saito. Yujiro Ishihara returns to the screen after a one-year absence due to illness. He says, "I intend to make the first film after my illness a fun action film without being overambitious," and he produced the film, composed the music, and gave it his all. --The finances of the shogunate were on the verge of crisis. The old chief, Tanuma Iiji (Tamba Tetsuro), unleashes his secret agents in various parts of the country to uncover the slightest fault of the feudal lords and take despicable measures to crush them and confiscate their fiefdoms. The feudal lords were horrified, calling the secretaries "shadows. There was only one way to deal with the shadow. There was only one way to deal with the shadow: kill it and silence it. Makino Toshiyuki (Ryutaro Tatsumi), a retainer of the Izushi clan, summoned Muroto Jubei (Yujiro Ishihara), Gekko (Mikio Narita), and Nikko (Ryohei Uchida) in order to avoid being stripped of his position. They are hunters who confront the "shadow. The fate of the 58,000 stone Izushi clan rests in the hands of these three ronin!

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailer(s), stills gallery

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[東宝DVD名作セレクション] 石原裕次郎生誕90周年記念! 昭和が生んだ大スターの娯楽作品を東宝DVD名作セレクションとしてリリース!! 奴らが血のにおいにやって来た! 豪快、非情、冷酷、影を追う三つの剣! さいとうたかをによる人気劇画を映画化。病のためにスクリーンから1年間遠ざかっていた石原裕次郎の復帰作。「病後第1作は気張らずに、楽しいアクションものにするつもり」と語る石原裕次郎は製作、音楽も担当し、全力で本作にあたっている。――幕府の財政は危機に瀕していた。老中・田沼意次(丹波哲郎)は、隠密を各地に放って大名の些細な落ち度を暴き、取り潰し、領地没収という卑劣な手段をとった。大名たちは隠密を"影"と呼び、恐れおののく。"影"に対する策は一つしかない。"影"を殺し、口を封じること――。出石藩の家老・牧野図書 (辰巳柳太郎) は、取り潰しを免れるため室戸十兵衛 (石原裕次郎)、月光 (成田三樹夫)、日光 (内田良平) を呼び寄せた。彼等は"影"と対決する狩人だ。五万八千石の出石藩の運命は、三人の浪人に託された!

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