Movielogr
Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit (1991)
Directed by Tokuzô Tanaka
Overview
When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon’s arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Kinnosuke Nakamura | Tomisaburo Wakayama | Hiroki Matsukata | Takahiro Tamura | Mikijiro Hira | Tetsuo Ishidate | Shinsuke Mikimoto | Sayoko Ninomiya | Yukiyo Toake | Takuzô Kawatani | Shigeru Kôyama | Kenichi Sakuragi | Goichi Yamada | Naomi Serizawa | Makoto Akatsuka | Tokue Hanazawa | Katsuhiko Watabiki | Goro Ohashi | Tadashi Yokouchi