Duel at Sundown

1955•1h 26m

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A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Kōtarō Bandō

Yasunosuke

Chikako Miyagi

Okinu

Kenzaburo Akechi

Kikuko Hasegawa

Okyo

Miki Odagiri

Okatsu

Setsuko Amamiya

Emi

Kenjiro Uemura

Shuriken no Ginji

Michisaburō Segawa

Kumagura

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