Release Date

March, 19th, 1966

Running Time

90 min

Genre

Feature

Color

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Screening Format

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Screen Size

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Sound Processing

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[ Directed by ]

• YAMADA Yoji

[ Cast ]

• HANA Hajime
• BAISHO Chieko
• INUZUKA Hiroshi

[ Staff ]

• YAMANOUCHI Hisashi ── Screenplay
• YAMADA Yoji ── Screenplay
• TAKABA Tetsuo ── Cinematography

[ Production Company ]

SHOCHIKU

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

SHOCHIKU

[ Story ]

This episodic film is patterned on the old picaresque comic novels so popular in eighteenth century Edo. A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.

【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1966 9.3】

[ Contact (International) ]

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