Overview
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 18, 2018
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Production
- TOHO,dentsu,MBS,WOWOW,Asahi Broadcasting Corporation,Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation,The Asahi Shimbun,Toho Pictures,Robot Communications,Yomiuri Shimbun Company,GYAO,Hikari TV,Kansai Television,Kobunsha,Tokyu Agency,TV Osaka,Jidaigeki Senmon Channel,Mainichi Shimbun
- Cast
- Hiroshi Abe,Etsushi Toyokawa,Rin Asuka,Morio Kazama,Atsuko Maeda,Shinobu Otake,Shinobu Terajima,Takumi Saitoh
- Director
- Yasuo Tsuruhashi
- Producer
- Yuko Hata
- Cinematography
- Tomoo Ezaki
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
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