Suzunosuke Akado: The One-Legged Demon | |
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Directed by | Kimiyoshi Yasuda |
Screenplay by | Tetsuro Yoshida |
Starring | Shoji Umewaka Tamao Nakamura Yatarō Kurokawa Eigoro Onoe Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka |
Cinematography | Aisaka Sōichi |
Edited by | Shigeo Nishida |
Music by | Urato Watanabe |
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Distributed by | Daiei |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Suzunosuke Akado: The One-Legged Demon (Japanese: 赤胴鈴之助 一本足の魔人, Hepburn: Akadō Suzunosuke: Ippon ashi no majin)[a] is a 1957 Japanese tokusatsu fantasy drama film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, and written by Tetsuro Yoshida.[2] Produced and distributed by Daiei Film, it is the sixth in the Suzunosuke Akado film series, after Suzunosuke Akado: The Vacuum Slash of Asuka, which was released in the same year on August 25. Suzunosuke Akado: The One-Legged Demon stars Shoji Umewaka, Tamao Nakamura, Yatarō Kurokawa, Eigoro Onoe, and Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka.[3] The film was followed by Suzunosuke Akado: The Birdman with Three Eyes the following year.
Suzunosuke Akado (Shoji Umewaka) faces off against a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged pirate.
Suzunosuke Akado: The One-Legged Demon was released in Japan on December 28, 1957.[2]
The film was released on DVD by Victor Film on December 20, 2002.[4]