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The General and His Empire of Joy (1977)
Directed by Ikuo Sekimoto
Drama · 1h 21m
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.
Cast
Eiko Matsuda
Tokuko Watanabe
Hiromi Maya
Yūsuke Kazato
Masataka Iwao
Akira Shioji
Mika Kaneko
Ryuji Katagiri
Takashi Noguchi
Crew
- Director
- Ikuo Sekimoto
- Writer
- Yōzō Tanaka
- Director of Photography
- Kenji Tsukagoshi
- Original Music Composer
- Hachiro Aoyama
- Editor
- Takeo Araki
Details
- Original title
- 大奥浮世風呂
- Release date
- 1977-02-11
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company