A Legend or Was It?

1963 film by Keisuke Kinoshita

A Legend or Was It?
Film poster

Kanji	死闘の伝説

Directed by	Keisuke Kinoshita
Written by	Keisuke Kinoshita
Produced by	Masao Shirai Keisuke Kinoshita
Starring	Shima Iwashita Gō Katō Mariko Kaga Kinuyo Tanaka
Cinematography	Hiroyuki Kusuda
Edited by	Yoshi Sugihara
Music by	Chūji Kinoshita
Production company	Shochiku^[1]
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	11 August 1963 (1963-08-11) (Japan)^[2]^[3]
Running time	83
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

A Legend or Was It? (死闘の伝説, Shitō no densetsu), also known as Legend of a Duel to the Death, is a 1963 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Shima Iwashita as Koeko Sonobe
Gō Katō as Hideyuki Sonobe
Mariko Kaga as Yuri Shimizu
Tsutomu Matsukawa as Norio Sonobe
Kinuyo Tanaka as Shizuko Sonobe
Bunta Sugawara as Goichi Takamori
Yoshi Katō as Shintaro Shimizu
Kikue Mōri as Umeno Sonobe
Tokue Hanazawa as Yamanosuke
Tatsuya Ishiguro as Kimbei Takamori

Legacy

A Legend or Was It? was screened at the 2012 Filmex as part of its retrospective on Keisuke Kinoshita,^[4] and at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 in the "Forum" section.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "【作品データベース】死闘の伝説". Shochiku (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "死闘の伝説". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "死闘の伝説". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
^ Mes, Tom (14 January 2013). "A Legend or Was It?". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
^ "Shito no densetsu". Berlinale.de. 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2023.