Comedy · Japan · 1957 · 1h 50m

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

幕末太陽傳

Director

Cast

Frankie Sakai as Inokori Saheiji Sachiko Hidari as Osome Yōko Minamida as Koharu Yūjirō Ishihara as Shinsaku Takasugi Izumi Ashikawa as Ohisa Toshiyuki Ichimura as Mokubei

Crew

Kuratarō Takamura — Director of Photography Tadashi Nakamura — Editor Toshirō Mayuzumi — Original Music Composer Shōhei Imamura — Screenplay Hisashi Yamanouchi — Screenplay Yūzō Kawashima — Screenplay

Synopsis

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

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