Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Letter of Challenge (1955)
Bored Hatamoto film #19
Top billed cast
Utaemon Ichikawa
Hibari Misora
Hiroko Mikasa
Hashizo Okawa
Shunji Sakai
Entatsu Yokoyama
Atsushi Watanabe
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Eitarō Shindō
Kunio Kaga
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