26 Aug 1950
Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Samurai Wolf II
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.
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夏八木勲 Kiba Ôkaminosuke
西村晃 Magobe
中谷一郎 Ikkaku
楠侑子 Oren
Rumiko Fuji Oteru
Chiyo Aoi Otatsu
Satoshi Amazu 
青木義朗 
織本順吉 
佐藤京一 
汐路章 
内田良平 
潮健児 Auto Yokoyama 
天津敏 Kazutarō Kuni Shinnosuke Ogata 
阿波地大輔 
五十嵐義弘 Hajime Nagoya
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