Movielogr
The General and His Empire of Joy (1977)
Directed by Ikuo Sekimoto
Overview
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.
Length 81 minutes
Actors
Eiko Matsuda | Tokuko Watanabe | Hiromi Maya | Yûsuke Kazato | Masataka Iwao | Ryumei Azuma | Akira Shioji | Rena Uchimura | Mika Kaneko | Ryûji Katagiri | Takashi Noguchi | Yoshinobu Hirose | Shunji Sasaki | Tsuyako Okajima | Mie Hayashi | Kayoko Tominaga | Mieko Hoshino | Mitsuki Shimoda | Takaya Shimoyama | Yukio Miyagi | Hiroshi Hatano | Yûko Asuka | Junpei Arishima | Yasumori Hikita | Koichi Tamano | Kantarô Suga | Aoi Nakajima | Masaru Shiga