Movielogr
快盗三人吉三 (1954)
Directed by Taizo Fuyushima
Overview
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun’s mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun’s family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Eiji Wakasugi | Yataro Kitakami | Senjaku Nakamura | Tamao Nakamura | Yuriko Kusama | Kuniko Igawa | Michiko Saga | Mitsuru Chiaki | Tomie Kawakami | Chieko Naniwa | Reiko Kitami | Kyôko Kusajima | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Hiroshi Aoyama | Shinobu Araki | Kodayu Ichikawa | Yoshito Yamaji | Kunitaro Sawamura | Ryuji Kita | 滝竜二 | Mitsuo Nagata | Kenzô Tanaka | Kazuko Futaba