Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Tomu Uchida

1955•94 min.•

Japan

★7.4(34)

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.