Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets involved.
Direction
Kazuo Mori's shadow-drenched compositions in the twin reveal scenes.
Acting
Hiroki Matsukata's weary charisma as the Full Moon Swordsman.
Director
Kazuo Mori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ieyoshi Tokugawa conspiracy riffs on real anxieties about shogunal succession and hidden power struggles in Edo-period Japan.
This thirteenth entry was among the last in the Sleepy Eyes of Death franchise before the wave of chanbara cinema began to decline in the early 1970s.
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