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Gonza the Spearman (1986)
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Overview
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
Length 126 minutes
Actors
Hiromi Gô | Shôhei Hino | Misako Tanaka | Hideji Ôtaki | Takashi Tsumura | Haruko Kato | Kuniko Miyake | Eiji Shima | Natsuki Asakawa | Kaori Mizushima | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Shoichi Ozawa | Shima Iwashita | Naoto Takenaka | Mansaku Fuwa | Daikei Shimizu | Tomoko Jinbo | Jun Hamamura | Akio Kobune | Yasuko Kubota | Keiko Koyanagi | Kinji Nakamura | Masa Shibamoto | Seijiro Fukunaka | Tatsuo Higashida | Keimasa Matsumoto | Fumio Takeda | Yasushi Hirai | Sumiko Okutani | Masae Okada | Satoko Yamamura | Yoshihiro Maruo | Atsuo Yamashita | Shinji Takaoka | Masahiro Kintake | Katsuyoshi Magozaki | Mitsue Takaishi | Noriko Tori | Imahashi Kumi