50+ Bloody Spear At Mount Fuji Dvdbeaver Pictures. His 1955 masterpiece bloody spear at mount fuji is an excellent entry point for the newcomer. Daisuke katō won the 1956 blue ribbon award for best supporting actor.
Tragicomic road movie set during the edo period.
I hadn't heard of it or its director before, but from the title and artwork it looked like a thrilling genre movie more suited to arrow's video label rather than its academy one. Genpachi, the spear carrier, is also. A traveling singer with her child, a father taking his daughter otane to be sold into prostitution, a pilgrim, a policeman searching for a notorious thief, and tōzaburō, the suspicious man the officer has his eyes on. I hadn't heard of it or its director before, but from the title and artwork it looked like a thrilling genre movie more suited to arrow's video label rather than its academy one.