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Story
Synopsis
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.
- Director
- Tadashi Imai
- Writers
- Kaneto Shindō, Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Release date
- 15 April 1958
Ensemble
Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Hikokurô Ogura
Ineko Arima
Otane, Hikokurô's wife
Masayuki Mori
Miyaji, the drum teacher
Sumiko Hidaka
Oyura
Keiko Yukishiro
Tomoko Naraoka
Orin
Emiko Azuma
Kikue Mōri
Shizue Natsukawa
Mannosuke Nakamura
Nobuo Kaneko
Eijirō Tōno
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