In a Ring of Mountains
Nakayama Shichiri: Seven Miles from Nakayama
Cast: ICHIKAWA RAIZO, NAKAMURA TAMAO, OSE KOICHI
Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa. This ninkyo eiga or chivalrous gambler film takes place in the mountains near Edo during the Samurai Era. Kiba-no-Masakichi (Masa), a traveling gambler takes on a lumber worker job and falls in love with Oshima almost at first sight.
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa avenges her by killing the officer. Haunted & grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima has committed suicide he goes underground, hiding in the gambling world.
When he winds up helping a young couple in trouble, his past comes to haunt him, pursued by the law, he's finally cornered for a climactic one-against-all battle.
REMASTERED PRINT
1962 - Blk/Wht 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 87 Min.
JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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