A Fantastic Tale of Naruto

A Fantastic Tale of Naruto
Directed by	Teinosuke Kinugasa
Distributed by	Daiei Film
Release date	29 September 1957 (1957-09-29)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

A Fantastic Tale of Naruto (鳴門秘帖, Naruto Hichō) is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.^[1][2][3] It is set in Awa Province (Tokushima).

Plot

From the pen of Eiji Yoshikawa comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto's waters to uncover the Awa clan's secrets.

He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa's secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki is a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who's sworn to kill him. Awa's defenders will stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.

Cast

• Kazuo Hasegawa
• Raizo Ichikawa
• Fujiko Yamamoto
• Ryosuke Kagawa
• Saburo Date
• Osamu Takizawa

References

1. "鳴門秘帖". kotobank. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
2. "鳴門秘帖". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
3. "鳴門秘帖". eiga.com. Retrieved September 12, 2021.

External links

• http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie2/naruto.htm (in Japanese)
• A Fantastic Tale of Naruto at IMDb