Country: Japan
Directed by Buntaro Futagawa
One of the few still existing silent chambara (sword fighting) movies that was very innovative for its era and gave to the Japanese cinema a great push. Until then most of the Japanese movies and especially these of this genre were very theatrical and heavily influenced by Kabuki and No : Futagawa directed the film with much more cinematic way and the performances of the actors were much more realistic. The film is surprisingly interesting and vivid even with today terms .The last scene of the fight is really beautifully made. But what impresses even more in the film is the clear, radical comment about social injustice : the outlaw who is hunted by police as a public danger is a noble man when the rich, respectable men who are corrupted to the core have the law to their side and they can get away even if commit the worst of the crimes
You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35y5S5_V-cE
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