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Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter (1952)

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion.

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Top billed cast

  • Photo of Utaemon IchikawaUtaemon IchikawaSaotome Mondonosuke
  • Photo of Chikako MiyagiChikako Miyagi霧島京彌
  • Photo of Keiko KishiKeiko Kishi菊路
  • Photo of Kodayu IchikawaKodayu Ichikawa松平左近将監
  • Photo of Kuniko IgawaKuniko Igawa萩乃
  • Photo of Kōkichi TakadaKōkichi Takada徳川浄海坊
  • Photo of Joji KaiedaJoji Kaieda徳川将軍
  • Photo of Eijirō YanagiEijirō Yanagi北村内膳正
  • Photo of Minoru ŌkiMinoru Ōki宮本小次郎
  • Photo of Ayuko SaijōAyuko Saijō七重

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