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Tange Sazen: Hien iaigiri

  • 1966
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
360
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Tange Sazen: Hien iaigiri (1966)
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Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen... Read allLoyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen ... Read allLoyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.

  • Director
    • Hideo Gosha
  • Writers
    • Hideo Gosha
    • Kei Tasaka
  • Stars
    • Kinnosuke Nakamura
    • Tetsurô Tanba
    • Keiko Awaji
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    360
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    • Director
      • Hideo Gosha
    • Writers
      • Hideo Gosha
      • Kei Tasaka
    • Stars
      • Kinnosuke Nakamura
      • Tetsurô Tanba
      • Keiko Awaji
    • 5User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Kinnosuke Nakamura
    • Samanosuke…
    Tetsurô Tanba
    Tetsurô Tanba
    • Lord Yagyu Tsushima
    Keiko Awaji
    Keiko Awaji
    • Fuji
    Isao Kimura
    • Yagyu Genzaburo
    Wakaba Irie
    • Hagino
    Bin Amatsu
    Takuya Fujioka
    Takuya Fujioka
    Kiyoshi Hitomi
    Minoru Hodaka
    Yoshinobu Kaneko
    Seizaburô Kawazu
    Seizaburô Kawazu
    Kazutarô Kuni
    Kinji Nakamura
    Shinnosuke Ogata
    Junkichi Orimoto
    Kyôichi Satô
    Sampei Taira
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    • Director
      • Hideo Gosha
    • Writers
      • Hideo Gosha
      • Kei Tasaka
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    • Connections
      Remake of Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)

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    6/10
    Nothing worth going out of your way to see, but not bad
    Disfigured swordsman Tange Sazen was a very popular cinematic character in Japan during the 1930s. "The Secret of the Urn" (a remake of a 1935 film called "The Million Ryo Pot") appears to have been an attempt to revive the series, jazzing up the violence in direct competition with more recently successful characters like Zatoichi and Kyoshiro Nemuri. There's no immediately apparent reason why a new Tange Sazen series didn't pan out; Kinnosuke Nakamura's performance lacks the subtlety of a Shintaro Katsu or Raizo Ichikawa (who played Zatoichi and Kyoshiro Nemuri, respectively), but he was a good screen fighter and might have grown into the Sazen role in time. Perhaps the film's ultimate problem is that it's *so* much like the average Zatoichi or Nemuri picture as to be indistinguishable. All the formulaic clichés are here: dangerous, brooding swordsman haunted by his painful past actually has a heart of gold and works to bring down a petty official who abuses his power, etc., etc. Audiences had seen this story unfold many times already, and maybe they just weren't interested in watching a revamped Tange Sazen go through such familiar motions.

    Top-notch sets, costumes and production values, and some exciting swordfights as well. (Tetsuro Tamba is relegated to a minor nonfighting role, for whatever reason.) For Hideo Gosha completists and hardcore fans of the Zatoichi and Kyoshiro Nemuri series, who have seen all of those films and crave something similar.
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    • Release date
      • May 21, 1966 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • The Secret of the Urn
    • Production company
      • Toei Company
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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