Goyokin is the gold and silver mined for the Tokugawa Shogunate and shipped by boat to Edo.
This movie stars 3 actors so familiar to me during the formative years of my love for samurai movies...Tatsuya Nakadai, Kinnosuke Nakamura, and Tetsuro Tamba. Nakadai plays so well a ronin haunted by a crime perpetrated by his brother-in-law, played by Tamba, to uphold the domain of their Lord. Nakamura is an undercover Bakafu agent investigating the disappearance of a whole town.
The filming is classic for it's time...artful waves, fire, rain and snow...well choreographed fight scenes with tense, quiet moments preceding swift and final blades...all very well done indeed.
And, there is the "inappropiate" laughter, the idea of duty before love, the geyser like gushing blood, melting into the white snow.
I was happy to come across this gem. I give it 3.5/5 acorns.
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