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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
| image = Chiyari Fuji poster.jpg
| caption = Japanese movie poster showing an actor Chiez Kataoka and Mount Fuji at background
| director = Tomu Uchida
| producer =
| writer = Kintaro Inoue (idea)
Shintar Mimura (writer)
Fuji Yahiro (writer)
| starring =
| music =
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = Toei
| distributor =
| released =
| runtime = 94 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
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is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tomu Uchida.
It is a "gruelling cruel tale" from the Edo period.[http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-chiezo-in-1930s.html A Few Early Films Starring Chiezo Kataoka] accessed 8 February 2009
Daisuke Kat won the 1956 Blue Ribbon Award for best supporting actor.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047937/awards accessed 8 February 2009
Plot
The samurai Sakawa Kojr is on the road to Edo with his two servants Genta and Genpachi. Kojr is a kindly master, but his character totally changes when he consumes alcohol. On the road, they encounter many different people: a traveling singer with her child, a father taking his daughter Otane to be sold into prostitution, a pilgrim, a policeman searching for a notorious thief, and Tzabur, the suspicious man the officer has his eyes on. Genpachi, the spear carrier, is also followed by an orphaned boy named Jir who wants to be a samurai. When Kojr and Genpachi inadvertently capture the thiefwho was the pilgrim in disguiseKojr is disgusted when the authorities praise him and not his servant, even though Genpachi probably contributed more. He is also upset that he does not have the money to save Otane from being sold. In the end it is Tzabur who saves Otane, using the money he saved to rescue his own daughter, but decided to use for Otane after finding out his daughter had died. Depressed, Kojr takes Genta out drinking, despite the protests of the latter. When a band of boisterous samurai complain of Kojr drinking with someone of lower birth, Kojr gets upset. The samurai pull their swords and kill both the servant and his master. Genpachi arrives too late, but in a fury kills all the samurai with the spear. Authorities do not charge him with a crime, so he heads home carrying the ashes of Kojr and Genta. When Jir tries to follow him, he shoos him off, telling him never to become a samurai.
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