The crafty director Mashahiro Shinoda entering at Shochiko in early sixties aiming for work nearby his hero Yashirô Ozu or perhaps together, unfortunately the famous master already had his own favorite crew members, nonetheless it didn't take too long appears his first directorial debut, five years later Shinoda becomes in successful director there at own style, he manages the whole system on Shochiko studios.
In this medieval epic sets place at 17th century aftermaths the legendary Battle of Sekigahara real events carried out in old Japan split in two opposite shogunates, then both employed hundred spies in high strain period, this picture focuses in a fictional spy character Sarutobi Sasuke (Kôji Takahashi) moving around to gathering some insights, soon he finds himself tangle of strange murdering case, meanwhile a love interest by a charming dancer, later he'll be charged such murders, often chased by a white clothed warrior.
A kind slow pacing shambara picture in a noirish style, on tons of foggy ambience implied by the stubborn director against the quickly process required by the so worried Shochico's producers, needing relisting movies in industrial scale, anyway Shinoda dribbled past studio system with majesty on a fabulous entitled "Samurai Spy" by foreigner dealers.
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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.
