Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | February 16, 2022
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An interesting tale with fine characters displayed at many junctures throughout the telling.
| genre | Adventure | Drama | foreign |
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| synopsis | Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution. |
| lead actors | Chiezō Kataoka | Ryūnosuke Tsukigata | Chizuru Kitagawa | Yuriko Tashiro | Motoharu Ueki | Chie Ueki | Eitarō Shindō | Daisuke Katō | Unpei Yokoyama | Toranosuke Ogawa | Kunio Kaga | Eijirô Kataoka | Kyoji Sugi | Atsushi Watanabe | Kumiko Mayama | Yoshio Yoshida | Kinnosuke Takamatsu | Kakuzo Iida | Kazuo Tokita | Masao Oda | Harue Akagi | Koji Arima | Ryûtarô Aoyagi | Tominosuke Hayama | Osamu Koganei | Kajō Onoe | Kenji Kusumoto | Kyôichi Hara | Masao Katô | Mitsuo Asano | Hideo Higashi | Hideo Shimada | Mitsukazu Kawamura | Katsuya Ishimaru | Masaharu Nakano | Ayako Hidaka | Shizuka Chifune | Hachiro Yamauchi |
| director | Tomu Uchida |