Cast & Crew

Directed by

Gordon Hessler

Writing Credits

Shô Kosugi
(story) and
Nelson Gidding
(story)
Nelson Gidding
(screenplay)

Cast

Shô Kosugi
Daigoro Mayeda
David Essex
Don Pedro
Kane Kosugi
Yorimune Tokugawa
Christopher Lee
King Philip III
Norman Lloyd
Father Vasco
Ronald Pickup
Capt. Crawford
John Rhys-Davies
El Zaidan
Polly Walker
Cecilia
Dylan Kussman
Smitty
Miwa Takada
Yodogimi
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Counselor
Toshirô Mifune
Lord Ieyasu Tokugawa
Yuki Sugimura
Chiyo Mayeda
Ken Sekiguchi
Ishikawa
Naoto Shigemizu
Nakamura
Yûji Sawayama
East Army General
Toni Sosie
Dutch
Miomir Radevic-Pigi
Second Pistolier
Shinsuke Shirakura
Daisuke Mayeda, ages 13-14
Stevan Minja
Salim
Ljubo Skiljevic
Taskmaster
John Stewart
Sailor 1
Dragomir Stanojevic
Sailor 2
Borivoje Stojanovic
Royal Chamberlain
Osamu Yayama
Samurai in Edo Castle
Kenji Miura
Interpreter for Ieyasu
Menamy Mitanes
Interpreter for Yodogimi
Hidekazu Utsumi
Page
Tadashi Ogawara
Page
Akira Hoshino
Ieyasu Retainer
Kenji Yasunaga
Ieyasu Retainer
Shogo Ikegami
Ieyasu Retainer
Junichiro Hayama
Ieyasu Retainer
Yoshiaki Iguchi
Ieyasu Retainer
Toshimi Yamaguchi
Samurai Guard for Ieyasu
Satoru Fukasaku
Samurai Guard for Ieyasu
Yuki Nasaka
Samurai Guard for Ieyasu
Kazuhiro Taketoshi
Samurai Guard for Ieyasu
Takashi Odajima
Samurai Guard for Ieyasu
Don Pedro Colley
Narrator
Milutin Savic-Dzimi
First Pistolier
Dusan Vujnovic
Ibrahim

Produced by

Milos Antic
line producer: Yugoslavia
Ken Fujiyama
associate producer (as Kenichiro Fujiyama) / producer
Toshiaki Hayashi
executive producer
Benni Korzen
line producer
Shô Kosugi
producer
Gene Kraft
associate producer
Susumu Mishima
associate producer
Hiroshi Tsuchiya
executive producer

Music by

John Scott

Cinematography by

John J. Connor

Editing by

Bill Butler

Casting By

Caro Jones

Production Design by

Adrian Gorton

Art Direction by

Vlastimir Gavrik

Set Decoration by

Branimir Babic
(uncredited)

Production Management

Gene Kraft
unit production manager
Kunio Niwa
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Yoshio Hagiwara
first assistant director
Gene Kraft
second unit director

Sound Department

David Kelson
sound mixer: Japan
Mike Le Mare
sound designer / supervising sound editor
Britton E. Taylor
sound editor
David Lewis Yewdall
sound effects editor
Marton Jankov-Tomica
boom operator (uncredited)

Stunts

Dale Gibson
stunts
Bob Ivy
stunts
Vuk Mitrovic
stunt double (as Vukasin Mitrovic)
Tadashi Ogawara
stunt double: Mayedas / stunts
Yûji Sawayama
stunts
Dragomir Stanojevic
stunts: Yugoslavia (as Dragomir Bata Stanojevic-Kameni)
John Stewart
stunt coordinator / stunts

Camera and Electrical Department

Peter Kernot
still photographer

Editorial Department

Gary Burritt
negative cutter
Daniel H. Holland
post-production assistant

Music Department

Richard C. Allen
music editor
Keith Grant
music scoring mixer
John Richards
music mixer
John Scott
conductor / orchestrator (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

Biljana Mirkovic
script supervisor (uncredited)

Additional Crew

Hiroshi Kuze
choreographer
Tadashi Ogawara
double: "Mayeda"
Yûji Sawayama
stand-in: "Yorimune"
Jan Rudolph
script supervisor: Japan (uncredited)
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