The second film in the “Suruga yukyoden” series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho’s wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.

Suruga yukyoden.mp4

General
Container:	MPEG-4
Runtime:	1h 25mn
Size:	269 MiB
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	640x360
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	24.975 fps
Bit rate:	340 kb/s
Audio
Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 96.0 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/DC26F8193969D1E/Suruga_yukyoden.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

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