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Cut the Shadow

8.019631h 22mMovieActionComedy

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to regret this laziness when he falls in love with the daughter of a higher class samurai and…

DirectorKazuo Ikehiro

WriterHideo Oguni

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Cast · Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

More from Raizō Ichikawa · Lead actor

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1962 · 6.4

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1955 · 6.8

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1954 · 5.0

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More from Michiko Saga · Co-star actress

Akō Rōshi

1964 · 7.5

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1966

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1956 · 7.2

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1955

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1955

While the Demon Steps Out

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1977 · 5.6

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More from Kazuo Ikehiro · Director

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1997

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