Musashibo Benkei (1942)
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.
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Drama, History
- Studio : Toho Eiga Co., Ltd.
- Director : Kunio Watanabe
- Cast : Joji Oka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine, Masaru Kodaka, Yataro Kurokawa, Kokuten Kōdō