Destiny's Son

Kiru

Japan

1962

71 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Renzaburô Shibata, Kaneto Shindô

CAST Raizô Ichikawa, Shigeru Amachi, Masayo Banri, Shiho Fujimura, Mayumi Nagisa, Junichiro Narita, Matasaburo Tamba, Teru Tomota, Eijirô Yanagi

In Kenji Misumi’s breakthrough film, Ichikawa seeks revenge and redemption after his family is murdered by a rival clan. An astonishing, dreamlike samurai film written by Kaneto Shindo, Destiny’s Son is a demonic masterpiece: designed with quasi-expressionist artistry, awash with surreal landscapes, and subsumed in an otherworldly beauty that fuses Zen and sword. —japansociety.org

Director

Kenji Misumi

He debuted as a movie director with “Tange Sazen: Kokezaru no Tsubo (Tange Sazen: The Kokezaru Pot).” He was one of “the Daiei trio” together with Tokuzo Tanaka and Kazuo Ikehiro, who supported the Daiei shooting studio in its prime. He established his position as a great period film director by the “Zatoichi” series starring Shintaro Katsu, and “Ken (The Sword)” and “Nemuri Kyoshiro” series starring Raizo Ichikawa. The spectacular scenes in the film version of “Kozure Okami (Baby Cart)” starring Tomisaburo Wakayama made a big impact on Sam Raimi and others in film industry. He received the 11th Galaxy award for his TV drama “Tenno no Seiki (The century of the emperor).” On September 24, 1975, he died from liver cancer. —horror-house.jp