Samurai Wolf 1 & 2 (1966 & 1967)

Samurai Wolf 1 & 2 (1966 & 1967)


Masters of Cinema #282-283
2 Movie Collection

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Eureka - Masters of Cinema

A duo of chanbara masterpieces from one of the genre’s greatest directors, Hideo Gosha! Out of a desire to make what he felt was a truly no-holds-barred sword-fighting film, Gosha took inspiration from the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as well as the spaghetti Western sub-genre they had inspired. Working with a low-budget to free himself from the restrictive oversight of his producers, the result was Samurai Wolf and Samurai Wolf II, the story of a charismatic ronin named Kiba (played by Isao Natsuyagi).

In the first film, Kiba wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that’s more than meets the eye, and in Samurai Wolf II Kiba gets mixed up in a complex web of intrigue, involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master.

With stunning black and white cinematography and ultra-stylish action sequences, the Samurai Wolf films are a lean, mean triumph of samurai cinema and the Masters of Cinema series is proud to present both films for the first time ever in the UK, on Blu-ray.

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A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.

Label Eureka Masters of Cinema
Distributor Eureka
Inspelningsår 1966
Regissör Hideo Gosha
imdb-rating 7.1
Längd Sat Dec 30 03h 24 00 CET 1899m
Cast Isao Natsuyagi, Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyazono