Noboru Taniguchi

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....

Le seigneur de guerre Oda Nobunaga a fait massacrer le clan de shinobi d’Iga. Désireux de ne laisser aucun survivant, il fait traquer tout ninja qui aurait réchappé à l’annihilation, tandis qu’il poursuit son ascension vers la tête du pays. C’est ainsi qu’Ishikawa Goemon, qui avait quitté Iga pour parti vivre avec son épouse Maki et leur fils Gohei, va devoir de nouveau prendre les armes contre le véhément seigneur de guerre.

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.