Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps (1967)
Kazuo Ikehiro
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Countries
Japan
Ratings
TMDB users
6.1/10
7 votes
Rating consensus
61/100 blend
Sources: TMDB
Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~61/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
Cast
Raizō Ichikawa
Nemuri Kyoshiro
Haruko Wanibuchi
Chisa
Mikio Narita
Ukon Saegusa
Naoko Kubo
Oen
Machiko Hasegawa
Toshie Kimura
Sonoe
Kayo Mikimoto
Nobuo Kaneko
Shurinosuke Asahina
Yoshio Inaba
Ryūtarō Gomi
Tatsuo Endō
Kōichi Uenoyama
In “Sleepy Eyes of Death Collection”
Other entries TMDB groups in this collection — often a franchise or anthology.
Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
1963
Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
1964
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
1964
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
1964
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
1965
Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
1965
Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess
1966
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
1966
Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
1968
Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
1968
Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
1969
Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
1969
Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
1969
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps (1967)
Kazuo Ikehiro
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