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Dai-bosatsu tōge
Dai-bosatsu tōge
Directed by	Tomu Uchida
Written by	Katsuhito Inomata; Eizaburo Shiba;
Based on	Dai-bosatsu tōge; by Kaizan Nakazato
Produced by	Hiroshi Okawa
Starring	Chiezō Kataoka; Nakamura Kinnosuke; Yumiko Hasegawa; Denjirō Ōkōchi; Ryūnosuke Tsukigata;
Cinematography	Shigeto Miki
Edited by	Shintarō Miyamoto
Music by	Shirō Fukai
Production; company	Toei Company
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	13 July 1957 (Japan);
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Dai-bosatsu tōge (大菩薩峠), English title Swords in the Moonlight or Sword in the Moonlight, is a 1957 Japanese jidaigeki and drama film directed by Tomu Uchida. It is based on the novel of the same name by Kaizan Nakazato.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Chiezō Kataoka as Ryunosuke Tsukue
Nakamura Kinnosuke as Hyoma Utsugi
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Shichibei
Yumiko Hasegawa as Ohama / Otoyo
Satomi Oka as Omatsu
Sumiko Hidaka as Otaki
Denjirō Ōkōchi as Toranosuke Shimada

Legacy

Dai-bosatsu tōge was screened in the Museum of Modern Art as part of a retrospective on Tomu Uchida in 2016.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "大菩薩峠(1957)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "大菩薩峠". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 July 2023.
^ "Daibosatsu toge (Swords in the Moonlight). 1957. Directed by Tomu Uchida". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 July 2023.