Kaze no Bushi

Kaze no Bushi (風の武士) is a 1961 jidaigeki novel by Ryōtarō Shiba (the author of Fukurō no Shiro). It has been adapted into a 1960-1961 TV series[1] and a Toei Company 1964 color chanbara film under the same title, directed by Tai Kato.[2]

Kaze no Bushi (Warrior of the Wind)
Directed byTai Kato
Written byTatsuo Nogami (screenplay)
Ryōtarō Shiba (novel)
StarringHashizo Okawa
Hiroko Sakuramachi
Naoko Kubo
Sanae Nakahara
Minoru Ōki
Kōji Nanbara
CinematographyKo Matsui
Edited byKatsumi Kawai
Music byChuji Kinoshita
Production
company
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
1964
Running time
95 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Story

The film tells the story of a womanizing ninja named Nabari Shinzo (Hashizo Okawa) during the Tokugawa shogunate. Hired for a mission by the government, Shinzo soon finds himself in the center of a multi-sided intrigue, surrounded by double agents and fighting for the woman he loves (Hiroko Sakuramachi as Chino) against a treacherous ronin rival.

DVD release

A remastered version of the film has been released on a DVD by Toei Video in Japan in 2006 (in 16:9 widescreen version with a trailer and photo gallery special features). The film has been later imported to U.S. with English subtitles under the title Warrior of the Wind (not to be confused with Warriors of the Wind).

References
  1. "Kaze no Bushi". tvdrama-db.com. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  2. "日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)「加藤泰」の解説". Kotobank. Retrieved 14 December 2021.


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