A Legend or Was It?

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]

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

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]