Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger

The story

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.

Cast

K Kanjūrō Arashi R Ryūzaburō Nakamura K Kinuko Obata J Jūzaburō Akechi U Ureo Egawa H Hikosaburo Kataoka N Noriko Kitazawa J Junko Ikeuchi T Takamaru Sasaki T Toshio Hosokawa J Jushiro Kobayashi G Gen Funabashi

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T Teruo Wakatsuki A Arata Shibata I Ichiro Namiki K Kōtarō Sugie J Jotaro Yuki T Tomohiko Ôtani K Koji Hirose K Kan Sugi J Junko Uozumi K Kōtarō Bandō T Tadao Takashima E Eiji Wakasugi