# The Great Killing (1964)

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**Original title**: *大殺陣*
**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Action, Drama
**Directed by**: Eiichi Kudō
**Written by**: Kaneo Ikegami
**Starring**: Tōru Abe, Mikijiro Hira, Yoshio Inaba, Chiezo Kataoka, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Nami Munakata

> *Heaven has no swords.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You serve a shogun in 17th century Japan and then a plot unfolds to overthrow him but the director Eiichi Kudō leaves you with feudal intrigue

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, paranoid, slow-burn

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