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Released
1968 · FILM

Kill!

Behold the best of Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro all in one film.

Directed by
Runtime
114 min
Language
JA
ActionComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Yoshitami KuroiwaShot by Rokuro NishigakiScored by Masaru SatoDesigned by Hiroyasu Tsutsumi

Also known as

  • Killde
  • Kill!en
  • Kill, la Forteresse des samouraïsfr

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