The General and His Empire of Joy
4.5
|Drama
1977-02-11
81 mins
The Plot
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.
Cast and Crew
Eiko Matsuda
Okoyo
Tokuko Watanabe
Kumemura
Hiromi Maya
Hatsuse
Yūsuke Kazato
Masataka Iwao
Ryumei Azuma
Kikutaro
Akira Shioji
Rena Uchimura
Nun
Mika Kaneko
Ryuji Katagiri
Takashi Noguchi
Yoshinobu Hirose
Shunji Sasaki
Tsuyako Okajima
Mie Hayashi
Kayoko Tominaga
Mieko Hoshino
Mitsuki Shimoda
Takaya Shimoyama
Sakakibara
Yukio Miyagi
Hiroshi Hatano
Saotome
Yûko Asuka
Maid
Junpei Arishima
Yasumori Hikita
Koichi Tamano
Kantarō Suga
Tokugawa Ietsuna
Aoi Nakajima
Tsuchiya Yuri
