Red Shuriken

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Red Shuriken (also known as Blood Shuriken) is a 1965 daiei Action-drama film,Directed by Tokuzo Tanaka.

## Plot

Due to the mining economy, the Wakitatsu post station was a town of lawlessness and violence, with three sets of yakuza competing against each other. Shinnosuke Ibuki, a ronin who suddenly interrupted with a horse in the battle between the Buddha family and the Kinya family, started a big brawl with his rough technique and stuffed the waraji under Matsujiro, the third boss coal shop. And he promised to destroy the Buddha family with Juryo. Ibuki was very good at shuriken, and his lawlessness made the whole town turbulent. Both the Kinya family and the Buddha family concentrated on erasing Ibuki. Kitafu Masa, who was hired by the Buddha family, was fascinated by the Buddha's concubine, Chinami, and settled down, but Ibuki's shuriken was at a glance. At that time, Chinami was looking for a hiding place for the 25,000 gold thieves that Kanzo and his colleagues worked for, but Chinami asked Masa to kill him. On the other hand, Ibuki frightened the Buddha's Kanzo bathing and sold a hundred cars to crush the charcoal shop and the silk shop. Having grasped this information, Sasuke of the silk shop went to the charcoal shop. When the surprised charcoal shop boarded the horse inn, Ibuki was indulged in an affair with his daughter, Oyuki. And he denied the information of Kinuya from his head. Kinya prepared for a battle with the Buddha and came to the charcoal shop for support, but the charcoal shop did not respond due to Ibuki's wisdom. However, while the charcoal shop, which received the Buddha's renter Kyubei coming to ask for arbitration with a sake barrel, was holding a banquet, the Buddha family who had a fight came in. At the same time, the main corps of Buddha Kanzo who got into the silk shop met a surprise attack on the silk shop, and after a difficult fight, Kanzo killed the traitor Sasuke. Sasuke was Oyuki's older brother. When the Buddhist corps that annihilated the charcoal shop turned to the silk shop, the Buddha family also fought hard and the boomerang thrown by the government decapitated the silk shop Genbei. Chinami wondered why he didn't kill Kanzo in this rush, but Masa was full of confrontation with Ibuki. When Ibuki reappears in the Buddha family, Chinami brings in a murder. The Buddha's Kanzo, who learned of this incident, blamed the government for his greed and jealousy, but he suggested that if he gave up Chinami, he would use it for the rest of his life and protect the money in question. On the other hand, Ibuki, who was saved by snow after being injured, threatened Chinami to hear the hiding place of gold and headed for the abandoned mine of the mountain, but at times, Kanzo and Masa's crew rushed to the mountain at night. But Ibuki's shuriken makes them fell down. In the meantime, Chinami was killed in a cave-in while being held by an oval. After finishing everything, Ibuki disappeared when he left a letter to Oyuki, leaving 25,000 gold in the Umaya.

## Cast

* Raizo Ichikawa
* Chitose Kobayashi
* Masumi Harukawa
* Koji Nanbara
* Fujio Suga
* Koichi Mizuhara
* Saburo Date
* Yoshio Yoshida
* Isao Yamagata
* Gen Kimura

## Staff

* directed by Tokuzo Tanaka
* Screenplay Hajime Takaiwa Tatsuo Nogami
* Original Haruhiko Oyabu
* Planning Shiro Kaga
* Photograph Kazuo Miyagawa
* Art Yoshinobu Nishioka
* Musics Setsuo Tsukahara
* Recording Yukio Kaihara
* Illumination Nakaoka Gengo
* Edit Hiroshi Yamada
* Still Yasuhiro Miura

## Titles

* Red Shuriken (Japanese: 赤い手裏剣 Original Japanese release title)
* Blood Shuriken (Japanese title)

## Overview

An action film directed by Hajime Takaiwa of "Bakuto Zamurai" and Tatsuo Nogami of "Nihon Kyokakuden Naniwa Hen" and directed by Tokuzo Tanaka of "Shinobi no Mono 4: Shinobi" from Haruhiko Oyabu's original "Rule Cover". The photo was taken by Kazuo Miyagawa of "Dogetsu Monogatari Sen no Odori".