# Vendetta of a Samurai (1952)

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**Original title**: *荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻*
**Runtime**: 82 min
**Genres**: Drama, Action, History
**Directed by**: Kazuo Mori
**Written by**: Akira Kurosawa
**Starring**: Toshirō Mifune, Yuriko Hamada, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Katayama, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You train a generation in the ryū of Araki-ryū but the student who follows your cut to the bone isn’t the one you expected. Then word spreads that the boy’s kin lies bleeding on the veranda of a corrupted daimyo.

**Mood tags**: outsider, raw

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