Shadow Hunters

The story

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

In the same saga

Shadow Hunters Collection

In release order

This film

Shadow Hunters

1972

Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny

1972

Cast

Y Yūjirō IshiharaMuroto Jubei R Ruriko AsaokaChitose R Ryōhei UchidaSunlight M Mikio NaritaMoonlight T Tetsuro Tamba S Shinjirō Ehara S Shōki Fukae K Kimiji Harada Y Yūzō Harumi M Michiko Honda E Eiko Horii B Bumon Kahara

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K Kiyoshi Kamoda S Shunsuke Kariya K Kazuhiko Kasai K Ken'ichi Kikuchi S Shiro Kuno K Kōjirō Kusanagi H Hisato Okamoto T Takeshi Omaeda C Chico Lourant K Keiko Shirakawa I Isao Tamagawa R Ryūtarō Tatsumi E Eriko Shima