Blood End (天狗黨) 55 years old

BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan's golden era of the late 1960's. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best roles, this is the story of the Mito Tengu Group who attempted to overthrow the Shogunate at the beginning of the Bakumatsu Period. Their political aspirations led to countless assassinations, as well as senseless killing of innocent people who got in their way. Sentaro (NAKADAI), a farmer who's been severely beaten for his outspoken defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine is befriended by one of the group's leaders, KADA Gentaro (KATO Go) and joins up. This is the masterpiece of director YAMAMOTO Satsuo (who is best known for the first film in the NINJA, BAND OF ASSASSINS series) the erstwhile 'Leftist' director, who used his films to make his political points. Stunning fight choreography, and ultra-violence make this one of the bloodiest films of that era. A powerful film Rare classic!

Credits

Shigeru Kôyama as Mizuki

Go Kato as Genjiro

Tatsuya Nakadai as Sentaro

Ayako Wakao as Otsuta

Mizuho Suzuki as Gunnoshin

Akira Natsuki as

Blood End Cast

Name	Character
Shigeru Kôyama He was 40, 87 years old when he died	as Mizuki
Go Kato He was 31, 80 years old when he died	as Genjiro
Tatsuya Nakadai He was 36, now 92 years old	as Sentaro
Ayako Wakao She was 36, now 91 years old	as Otsuta
Mizuho Suzuki He was 42, now 97 years old	as Gunnoshin
Akira Natsuki He was 41, now 97 years old
Saburo Date He was 45, 67 years old when he died
Jun Fujikawa
Tokio Oki
Ichirô Nakatani He was 39, 73 years old when he died	as Chôgorô
Kan'emon Nakamura	as Jingosa
Kanae Kobayashi She was 81, 72 years old when she died
Yukiyo Toake She was 26, now 82 years old	as Otae
Asao Sano He was 44, now 99 years old
Hajime Koshikawa
Sumao Ishihara He was 66, now 121 years old
Shintarô Nanjô He was 52, now 107 years old
Manabu Morita
Tadashi Iwata He was 45, 93 years old when he died
Masayoshi Kikuno
Keiko Koyanagi She was 43, now 98 years old
Saburô Nagaoka
Akira Shimizu He was 15, now 70 years old
Yûji Hamada
Yukio Horikita He was 53, now 108 years old

Blood End Crew

Name	Department
Masaichi Nagata as Producer. He was 63 (79) years old when He died	Production
Satsuo Yamamoto as Director. He was 59 (73) years old when He died	Directing
Hajime Takaiwa as Screenplay. He was 59 (89) years old when He died	Writing
Akira Naitô as Art Direction.	Art
Chikashi Makiura as Director of Photography.	Camera
Sei Ikeno as Original Music Composer. He was 38 (73) years old when He died	Sound
Toshiaki Kunihara as Assistant Director. He was 38 (now 94) years old	Directing
Shun Inagaki as Screenplay.	Writing

Blood End (55 years)

Release day: Saturday, November 15, 1969
Runtime: 102 minutes