Sword of the Beast

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Sword of the Beast
Cover of The Criterion Collection DVD
Directed by	Hideo Gosha
Written by	Hideo Gosha Eizaburo Shiba
Starring	Mikijiro Hira Go Kato
Cinematography	Toshitada Tsuchiya
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	September 18, 1965 (1965-09-18) (Japan)
Running time	85 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Sword of the Beast (獣の剣, Kedamono no ken, also called Samurai Gold Seekers^[1]) is a 1965 jidaigeki film co-written and directed by Hideo Gosha.^[2] Set in 1857 at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the story follows a fugitive samurai who has killed a counselor in his clan and is on the run. He gets involved in a scheme to poach gold from the shōgun's mountain, where he encounters another samurai who is also there to poach gold.^[3]