# The Last Samurai (1974)

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**Original title**: *狼よ落日を斬れ*
**Runtime**: 159 min
**Genres**: Drama, Action
**Directed by**: Kenji Misumi
**Written by**: Kenji Misumi, Takeo Kunihiro, Shotaro Ikenami
**Starring**: Hideki Takahashi, Ken Ogata, Teruhiko Saigō, Masaomi Kondo, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiwako Taichi

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You return to Edo as Toranosuke, once a sickly child reborn by a master’s blade. The city’s feudal order collapses around you. Your teacher insists you flee before the swords start talking. Long pans measure the distance between old ways and whatever comes next.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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