Bored Hatamoto Returns to Edo (1931)
Bored Hatamoto film #4
Top billed cast
Utaemon Ichikawa- Michiko Oe
Jūrō Tanizaki
Kokuten Kōdō- Ryuzo Takei
- Kanemi Ida
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