The General and His Empire of Joy
1977•1h 21m•4.6•Released
Drama
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.
Director
Ikuo Sekimoto
Writer
Yōzō Tanaka
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Toei Company
Cast
Eiko Matsuda
Okoyo
Tokuko Watanabe
Kumemura
Hiromi Maya
Hatsuse
Yūsuke Kazato
Masataka Iwao
Ryumei Azuma
Kikutaro
Akira Shioji
Rena Uchimura
Nun
Mika Kaneko
Ryuji Katagiri
Takashi Noguchi
Yoshinobu Hirose
Shunji Sasaki
Tsuyako Okajima
Mie Hayashi
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