- Year
- 1969
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Director
- Hideo Gosha
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (41/100)
- Also known as
- The Steel Edge of Revenge · Official Gold
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A samurai returns to stop the massacre he could not prevent the first time. Shot in real snow.
Hideo Gosha's widescreen epic about a ronin haunted by a clan's slaughter of a village to cover up the theft of the shogunate's gold, who returns to prevent it happening again. It is one of the most visually spectacular chanbara films, staged in genuine deep snow along the Japan Sea coast.
Tatsuya Nakadai anchors it, and Gosha balances the moral weight with real spectacle. It is the point where the serious samurai film and the action film meet without either losing anything.
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