Sword of the Beast
| Sword of the Beast | |
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| Directed by | Hideo Gosha |
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| Cinematography | Toshitada Tsuchiya |
| Music by | Toshiaki Tsushima |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 85 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sword of the Beast (獣の剣, Kedamono no ken; also called Samurai Gold Seekers) is a 1965 jidaigeki film co-written and directed by Hideo Gosha. Set in 1857 at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the story follows a fugitive samurai who has killed a counselor in his clan and is on the run. He gets involved in a scheme to poach gold from the shōgun's mountain, where he encounters another samurai who is also there to poach gold.