快盗三人吉三
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.
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Cast: Eiji Wakasugi, Yataro Kitakami, Senjaku Nakamura, Tamao Nakamura, Yuriko Kusama, Kuniko Igawa, Michiko Saga, Mitsuru Chiaki, Tomie Kawakami, Chieko Naniwa, Reiko Kitami, Kyōko Kusajima, Ryōsuke Kagawa
Crew: Taizō Fuyushima (Director), Tokuhei Wakao (Screenplay), 高木貢一 (Producer), Kiyoshi Kataoka (Cinematography), Kiyoshi Kawamura (Art Direction)