Even for its brevity, the import remains a long, tedious conversation piece, interspersed with reedy songs and a few interesting, mobile faces. Most of the time the members of the all-male cast sit around on their haunches.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1952 · 59m · N/A
Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Overview
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.
Director and cast
- Akira Kurosawa Director
- Denjirō Ōkōchi as Benkei
- Susumu Fujita as Togashi
- Kenichi Enomoto as Porter
- Masayuki Mori as Kamei
- Takashi Shimura as Kataoka
- Akitake Kōno as Ise
- Yoshio Kosugi as Suruga
- Hanshiro Iwai as Yoshitsune (as Shubo Nishina)
- Dekao Yokoo as Hidachibo
- Yasuo Hisamatsu as Kajiwara's Messenger
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Akira Kurosawa's slimmest feature, running only an hour, is also one of the best of his early period.
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