Shigeo Shizuyama

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

La deuxième partie commence là où le premier film s'est terminé, avec Iemon qui se débarrasse des corps de sa femme et de Kohei, se marie à nouveau et est victime de chantage de la part du maléfique Naosuke.

Mélodrame japonais sur trois sœurs, des entreprises de mode rivales et une tentative de meurtre par salle de bain surchauffée.

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned former warrior gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to retrieve a famous knife from a corrupt lord. This is the third version directed by Makino Masahiro and is considered a true classic.

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the temple Honnoji. Historically, the general Akechi Mitsuhide is credited with causing Nobunaga's downfall. Kato's novel focuses on Mitsuhide's nephew Samanosuke, who fought alongside his uncle during the assault on Honnoji.