Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
影法師捕物帖
Watch kagebôshi: the shadow avenger soap2day. For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
- Genre: Action, History
- Country: Japan
- Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
- Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi, Ryūzaburō Nakamura, Kinuko Obata, Jūzaburō Akechi, Ureo Egawa, Hikosaburo Kataoka, Noriko Kitazawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Takamaru Sasaki, Toshio Hosokawa, Jushiro Kobayashi, Gen Funabashi, Teruo Wakatsuki, Arata Shibata, Ichiro Namiki, Kōtarō Sugie, Jotaro Yuki, Tomohiko Ôtani, Kōji Hirose, Kan Sugi, Junko Uozumi,
