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Eizaburô Shiba. Writer: Three Outlaw Samurai. Eizaburô Shiba was a writer and producer, known for Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Seishun no sabaki (1965) and Monkey (1978).
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- October 17, 2022
- Eizaburo Shiba
Eizaburo Shiba. Writer. Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal.
Mar 5, 2024 · The screenplay for the film was penned by Eizaburo Shiba, known for his expertise in historical narratives. The movie was a critical success in Japan. Sword of the Beast received high praise from Japanese critics upon its release.
Oct 4, 2005 · Director Hideo Gosha ("Yokiro") and his co-writer Eizaburo Shiba come up with a more complicated scenario than we usually find in these samurai movies. Although Gennosuke is the central character, it is Jurota whose life is the subject of flashbacks to explain his problems and motivations.
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Sword of the Beast. Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal.
- Gennosuke Yuki
Working in the chambara genre, Gosha and co-screenwriter Eizaburo Shiba invert this concept: a corrupt society brings out beastly behavior and turns men against one another. In Sword of the Beast , mid-19th Century Japan is portrayed as a harsh, class-based society in which advancement seems impossible without compromising one's virtue ...
Sep 19, 2009 · It's one of the deepest samurai stories I've seen, written by Eizaburo Shiba and the film's director Hideo Gosha. Shiba had already written the three part Sword of Doom in the late fifties, though not the version I've seen, and 1964's excellent Three Outlaw Samurai , again with Gosha who was also debuting as a director.
