The Thin Line between Truth and Lies: Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy Alain Silver June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Alongside Kihachi Okamoto’s Dai-bosatsu toge (The Sword of Doom, 1966) and Hideo Gosha’s Kedamono no ken (Sword of the Beast, 1965), Masahiro Shinoda’s Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke (Samurai Spy) presents a new type of ...