快盗三人吉三

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Taizō Fuyushima

Writers

Tokuhei Wakao

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

21 April 1954

Ensemble

Cast

• Eiji Wakasugi

  弁長

• Yatarō Kitagami

  安森吉三郎

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  Senjaku Nakamura

  木屋吉三

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  Tamao Nakamura

  木屋吉三（少年時代）

• Yuriko Kusama

  お島

• 

  Kuniko Igawa

  弥生

• 

  Michiko Saga

  おとせ

• Mitsuru Chiaki

  おゆき

• Tomie Kawakami

  およね

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  Chieko Naniwa

  小紫の局

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  Reiko Kitami

  粂村

• Kyōko Kusajima

  萩乃