Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hashizo Okawa, Shirō Ōsaka, Shunji Sakai, Kiyoshi Matsukawa, Hajime Nagoya, Heitaro Gori, Hideo Shimada, Kōshirō Harada, Takamaru Sasaki, Mitsukazu Kawamura, Hiroshi Mizuhara, Kensaku Hara, Akitake Kôno
Crew: Daisuke Itō (Director), Daisuke Itō (Screenplay), Akira Ifukube (Original Music Composer), Sadaji Yoshida (Director of Photography), Haruo Nakayama (Lighting Technician)