Movies - Kill!

	Movies - Kill!

Kill! (斬る) is a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, written by Akira Murao, Kihachi Okamoto, and Shugoro Yamamoto and starring Tatsuya Nakadai.

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai
.... Genta (Hyodo Yagenta)
Etsushi Takahashi .... Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)
Naoko Kubo .... Tetsutaro Oikawa
Shigeru Kôyama .... Ayuzama
Akira Kubo .... Monnosuke Takei
Seishiro Kuno .... Daijiro Masataka
Tadao Nakamaru .... Shoda Magobei
Eijirô Tono .... Moriuchi Hiyogo
Isao Hashimoto .... Konosuke Fujii
Yoshio Tsuchiya .... Matsuo Shiroku

Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, an ex-samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering gang member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata (Etsushi Takahashi) a farmer who wants to become a samurai to escape the formerly powerless life. Genta and Tabata wind up on opposite sides of clan intrigue when 7 members of a local clan assassinate their clan chancellor. Although the 7, lead by Tetutaro Oikawa (Naoko Kubo) rebelled with the support of their superior, Ayuzama (Shigeru Kôyama), he turns on them and sends members of the clan to kill them as outlaws.

The film is an exploration of what it is to be samurai with a number of characters in the movie either giving up samurai status or fighting to get it. Samurai are seen behaving both honorably and very badly.

Trivia

Kill! is based on Shugoro Yamamoto's novel Peaceful Days, the same novel as Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro
.
The film shares some common scenes (for example, the beating scene) with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars
which was in turn inspired by Sanjuro
's predecessor, Yojimbo.

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