Sword Of The Beast (Criterion) (1965) Rating: Starring: Mikijiro Hira, Go Kato, Kunie Tanaka Director: Hideo Gosha Category: Action / Adventure, Avant Garde, Foreign, Classics, Classics Studio: Criterion Subtitles: English Length: 85 mins     Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of Gennosuke, who kills one of his clan's 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 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.