Japan Release: 1970
Running Time: 117 minutes

Incident at Blood Pass

Japanese Title

待ち伏せ
[Machibuse]

Distributor: Production:

Toho
Mifune Productions

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Titles

International Title

Incident at Blood Pass

Initial US Title

The Ambush
US Distributor: Toho (1970) / Time: 115 Minutes

Alternate Titles

The Ambush
[Literal translation]

Ambush at Blood Pass
[UK DVD Title]

Staff

Cast

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Writing credits Kyu Fujiki, Ichiro Miyagawa, Hideo Oguni, Hajime Takaiwa
Produced by Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Nishikawa, Mamoru Kumada
Music by Masaru Sato
Cinematography by Kazuo Yamada
Film Editing by Yoshihiro Araki
Production Design by Hiroshi Ueda
Assistant Directors Teruo Maru, Osamu Yasui

Yojimbo Toshiro Mifune
Yataro Yujiro Ishihara
Okuni Ruriko Asaoka
Gentetsu Shintaro Katsu
Heima Ibuki Kinnosuke Nakamura
Samurai Chusha Ichikawa
Tokubei Ichiro Arishima
Oyuki Mika Kitagawa
Itahachi Yoshio Tsuchiya
Gonji Jotaro Togami
Tatsu Ryunosuke Yamazaki
- Chieko Nakakita
- Seishiro Hisano
- Yasuo Araki
- Hirohito Kimura
- Seishiro Kuno
- Hiroshi Tanaka
- Yutaka Sada
- Shinsuke Achiba
- Yuzuro Sawanobori
- Shunichi Okita
- Kazuo Suzuki
- Koji Kaminishi
- Yasuji Uraki
- Kenzo Echigo
- Minoru Ito
- Yukihiko Gondo
- Koji Kakiki
- Isamu Arai
- Kazotoshi Yoshiyama
- Toshio Endo
- Shigeyoshi Yokota
- Mitsuyuki Oshima
- Kimizuka Masazumi
- Kengo Nakayama
- Yoshiharu Takahashi

Posters

Japan

DVDs and Blu-rays

	Region 1 Incident at Blood Pass AnimEigo (2005)
	Region 2 The Ambush Toho (2005)

Background and Trivia

Toho submitted the film to the US copyright office on December 29th, 1997 with the registration number PA0000889362. The titles used were the international title, Incident at Blood Pass, and also the Romaji title as "Machibuse". The submission was a joint one done with Band of Assassins (1969).

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