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Director
  
Toshio Matsumoto

Screenplay
  
Toshio Matsumoto

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

8.4/10
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Genre
  
Drama, Horror

Story by
  
Tsuruya Nanboku

Country
  
Japan

Shura (film) movie poster

Release date
  
13 February 1971 (1971-02-13)

Writer
  
Toshio Matsumoto, Nanboku Tsuruya (play)

Cast
  
Katsuo Nakamura
(Gengobe Satsuma),
Yasuko Sanjo
(Koman),
Juro Kara
(Sango),
Masao Imafuku
(Hachiemon)

Similar movies
  
Toshio Matsumoto directed Demons and Funeral Parade of Roses

Demons, aka Pandemonium (修羅, Shura) is a 1971 Japanese samurai jidaigeki / horror film directed by Toshio Matsumoto. Referring to asuras, the movie is based on Tsuruya Nanboku and Shuji Ishizawa's play Kamikakete Sango Taisetsu, and reflects the director's experimental filming background and theatrical influence. It was released on 13 February 1971 in Japan by the Art Theatre Guild and Matsumoto Productions Company, almost two years after the director's first feature-length attempt, Funeral Parade of Roses.

Contents

The film is a portrait of feudal Japan's society and culture. Related to older samurai genre films and the classic tale of the forty-seven ronin, it begins with a colorful setting sun, but the rest of the film is shot in black and white.

Plot

The main character Gengobe (Katsuo Nakamura), an exile masterless samurai (ronin), is facing a moral dilemma: either help a courtesan he loves, or join his clan in a campaign of honor. When the geisha and her husband rob him of his reinstatement money, Gengobe's guilt drives him to paths of distraction. As the story develops, secrets are revealed but the dark fate that portends is not avoided.

Cast

  • Katsuo Nakamura as Gengobe/Soemon
  • Yasuko Sanjo as Komon
  • Juro Kara as Sangoro
  • Masao Imafuku as Hachiemon
  • Tamotsu Tamura
  • Hideo Kanze
  • Kappei Matsumoto
  • Shinshi Amano
  • Hatsuo Yamatani
  • Yusuke Minami
  • References

    Shura (film) Wikipedia
    Shura (film) IMDb Shura (film) themoviedb.org