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Benten Kozo (1960)
Directed by Yasushi Sasaki
Drama, Action · 1h 14m
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a child, which were used to put on stage productions to raise money for the temple, but also to display young lads who were essentially for sale to the highest bidder. When Kiku gets fed up with how the temple uses the orphans and wants to leave he gets accused of a double murder and has to flee for his life and liberty.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Yasushi Sasaki
- Writer
- Tatsuo Nakada
Details
- Original title
- ひばり十八番 弁天小僧
- Release date
- 1960-01-03
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, Action
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company
Hibari Misora
Kōtarō Satomi
Hiromi Hanazono
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Yataro Kurokawa
Eijirō Yanagi
Mitsuko Miura
Isao Yamagata
Kusuo Abe