Musashibo Benkei
- Media type
- Film
武蔵坊辨慶 · Musashibo Benkei · MOVIE
Drama, History 1942
About this title
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is, of course, a man). The film climaxes in the famous encounter/fight btw Benkei and Yoshitsune at the Gojo Bridge.