A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
Bakumatsu taiyôden
110 min
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.
- Release date
- July 14, 1957
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
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Cast
- Furankī Sakai as Inokori Saheiji, the stayer
- Sachiko Hidari as Osome, the prostitute
- Yōko Minamida as Koharu, the prostitute
- Yūjirō Ishihara as Shinsaku Takasugi
- Izumi Ashikawa as Ohisa, the maid
- Toshiyuki Ichimura as Mokubei
- Nobuo Kaneko as Denbei
- Hisano Yamaoka as Otatsu - Denbei's wife
- Yasukiyo Umeno as Tokusaburô - Otatsu's son
- Masao Oda as Zenpachi
- Masumi Okada as Kisuke
- Toshio Takahara as Kaneji
- Tomio Aoki
- Sanpei Mine as Sanpei
- Kin Sugai as Okuma
- Shōichi Ozawa as Kinzo
- Kenjirō Uemura as Chobei
- Akitake Kôno as Matabei
- Kō Nishimura as Kiyami no Shinko
- Kazuo Kumakura as Kinbou
- Taiji Tonoyama as Kurazo
- Hiroshi Katô as Kurazo's Son, Seishichi
- Hideaki Nitani as Monta Shiji
- Akira Kobayashi as Genzui Kusaka
- Reiko Arai as Omoyo
- Hyōe Enoki as Genpei
- Toyo Fukuda
- Shōbun Inoue as Gonta
- Ryūsei Itō
Crew
- Yūzō Kawashima · Director
- Hisashi Yamanouchi · Writer
- Yūzō Kawashima · Writer
- Shōhei Imamura · Writer
- Takeshi Yamamoto · Producer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi · Composer
- Kuratarō Takamura · Cinematographer
- Tadashi Nakamura · Editor