The Betrayal
6.4 / 10
87 minutes
1966-07-02
Japanese
JP
Actors :
Raizō Ichikawa, Kaoru Yachigusa, Shiho Fujimura, Ichirō Nakatani, Ryūtarō Gomi, Taketoshi Naitō, Takuya Fujioka, Asao Uchida, Yoshi Katō, Akihisa Toda, Kōichi Mizuhara, Saburo Date, Shinobu Araki, Yoshio Yoshida, Ikkei Tamaki
Description
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a master-less ronin, if not hunted down and killed.