Movielogr
Tsukigata Hanpeita (1952)
Directed by Kokichi Uchide
Overview
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Utaemon Ichikawa | Isuzu Yamada | Hibari Misora | Chizuru Kitagawa | Minoru Oki | Jotaro Togami | Yoshito Yamaji | Daijirô Natsukawa | Joji Kaieda | Akio Kobori | Hiroshi Aoyama | Chieko Naniwa | Hiroko Takayama | Tomiemon Otomo | Sanshiro Tsubaki | Rintarô Fujima | Noboru Kasuga | Kenzô Tanaka | Fujio Sasagawa | Koji Nakata | Saburo Komyoji | Shin Nakahara | Shûsaku Waka | Minoru Suzuki | Akio Miyajima | Haruo Inoue | Kazuko Okada | Mitsue Takigawa | Hisano Yamato | Michiyo Azuma | Teruko Mikasa | Yataro Kitagami | Mitsuo Nagata