

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era(1957)
Overview
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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Frankie Sakai
Inokori Saheiji

Sachiko Hidari
Osome

Yōko Minamida
Koharu

Yūjirō Ishihara
Shinsaku Takasugi

Izumi Ashikawa
Ohisa

Toshiyuki Ichimura
Mokubei

Nobuo Kaneko
Denbei

Hisano Yamaoka
Otatsu

Yasukiyo Umeno
Tokusaburo

Masao Oda
Zenpachi

Masumi Okada
Kisuke

Toshio Takahara
Kaneji

Tomio Aoki
Sanpei Mine
Sanpei

Kin Sugai
Okuma

Shoichi Ozawa
Kinzo

Kenjiro Uemura
Chobei
Akitake Kōno
Matabei

Kō Nishimura
Kiyami no Shinko

Kazuo Kumakura
Kinbou

Taiji Tonoyama
Kurazo

Hiroshi Kato
Kurazo's Son, Seishichi

Hideaki Nitani
Monta Shiji

Akira Kobayashi
Genzui Kusaka

Shosei Muto
Yamato

Reiko Arai
Omoyo

Hyōe Enoki
Genpei
Toyo Fukuda

Shōbun Inoue
Gonta
Ryusei Ito

Nobuo Kawakami
Ikunosuke Koizumi
Akio Miyabe
Yoko Takeuchi
Oyoshi
Aomi Shiba
Otetsu
Chiyoko Shimizu
Ouno

Chigusa Takayama
Osada

Zenji Yamada

Takeshi Katō
Narrator (uncredited)
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