Samurai Pirate

大盗賊
1963 96 min Action · Adventure · Comedy · Fantasy

Thrilling, swashbuckling piracy of the samurai

With a pirate sword and a samurai’s swagger this oddball quest is basically a samurai flick that forgot to take off its pirate hat. A scrappy deckhand sails toward a crumbling castle to outwit a premier who’s basically a human spreadsheet of greed. Unfortunately the film’s only real specialty is confusing everyone involved.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi · Written by Shinichi Sekizawa, Takeshi Kimura, Toshio Yasumi

Starring Toshirō Mifune, Mie Hama, Tadao Nakamaru, Kumi Mizuno, Ichirō Arishima, Hideyo Amamoto

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