Tange Sazen
Tange Sazen
- Release Date
- November, 17th, 1963
- Running Time
- 95 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- -
- Screening Format
- -
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- UCHIKAWA Seiichiro ── Screenplay
- NOGUCHI Yasuhiko ── Screenplay
- OTA Yoshiharu ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Story ]
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders, the Yagyu Clan, to repair the Nikko Shrine. As the orders cannot be rejected the very poor clan must find means to raise the vast sum of money necessary for the repairs. The eldest son Genzaburo and his younger brother Gennojo are told by an elder, that they have nothing to worry about because the Yagyu Clan has money hidden away which will be more than sufficient. However, the secret of the hiding place is engraved in the famous Kan-un-maru sword which has been sent to the Shima family in Edo, the capital, as a betrothal gift when Genzaburo was to become the husband of Bokuden Shima's daughter, Hagino. Bokuden offers to return the sword only if Gennojo can win a duel. Gennojo is successful when Tange Sazen challenges him, wins, and takes away the sword. Gennojo then tells Bokuden the secret of the sword and this conversation is overheard by Bokuden's disciple Tamba Mine, and the caretaker woman Oren, who later kill Bokuden to steal the treasure.
Then Gennojo is informed that another noted sword, the Konryu, must also be found before the secret of the treasure can be uncovered.
Sazen returns the Kan-un-maru sword to Hagino and reveals that Tamba Mine poisoned Bokuden. His plot uncovered, Tamba snatches away the Kan-un-maru and sets fire to the house. Sazen rescues Hagino from the fire and escapes from Tamba's followers by hiding in a temple where a priest reveals that 30 years ago his predecessor found an abandoned child carrying a sword as a charm. When the elder Mondono-sho: Tamaru takes a close look at Sazen he discovers to his surprise that Sazen is the grown-up image of the abandoned child.....
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1964 7.1】
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