Sword for Hire (1952)
Sword for Hire (1952)
Plot.
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
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Cast & Crew.
Toshirō Mifune
Sasa Hayatenosuke
Rentaro Mikuni
Tachibana Jurata
Danshirō Ichikawa
Kagami Yakeiji
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Oryo
Hiroshi Inagaki
Director
Shinobu Asaji
Kano
Yasushi Inoue
Writer
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
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Sword for Hire (戦国無頼, Sengoku burai) (lit. 'Vagabonds in a Country at War') is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. The film is based on a serialized novel by Yasushi Inoue published in the Sunday Mainichi.