Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

Overview

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 14, 1952

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Production

Shochiku

Cast

Mitsuo Nagata,Jushiro Kobayashi,Shunji Sakai,Eijirō Yanagi,Kodayu Ichikawa,Joji Kaieda,Keiko Kishi,Kōkichi Takada,Ayuko Saijō,Chikako Miyagiand 4 more

Director

Tatsuo Ōsone

Writer

Mitsuzō Sasaki,Isamu Nagae,Hyōgo Suzuki

Producer

Kōichi Takagi,Shigeki Sugiyama

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt18555328