# Secret of Naruto (1957)

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**Original title**: *鳴門秘帖*
**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Drama, Action
**Directed by**: Teinosuke Kinugasa
**Written by**: Teinosuke Kinugasa, Minoru Inuzuka
**Starring**: Chikage Awashima, Toshio Chiba, Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizō Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Ryōsuke Kagawa

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You stand on the deck as the Naruto Strait churns beneath you, the mad lord’s banner snapping above Tokushima. Then a bloodied scroll changes everything. Kinugasa’s camera fixes on the sword scar that seals its message, then drifts to the shogun’s approaching cavalry.

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