A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Runtime : 1H 50M
Director : Yūzō Kawashima
Writer : Hisashi Yamanouchi, Yūzō Kawashima, Shôhei Imamura
Synopsis
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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