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Sword of the Beast (1965) is streaming on Criterion Channel.
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Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Gennosuke abandons the rigid codes of samurai society to live as a feral creature after his own comrades betray him. This visceral journey through the wilderness captures the crushing weight of broken honor through sharp, kinetic blade work.
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Hideo Gosha
Cast
Mikijiro Hira, Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kunie Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Toshie Kimura, Kantarō Suga, Yōko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi, Torahiko Hamada
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Sword of the Beast
You can stream Sword of the Beast (1965) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.
Director
Hideo Gosha
Cast
Mikijiro Hira, Gō Katō, Shima Iwashita, Kunie Tanaka, Eijirō Tōno, Toshie Kimura, Kantarō Suga, Yōko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi, Torahiko Hamada
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Sword of the Beast is streaming on Criterion Channel. Availability last verified September 22, 2026.