Movie
Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
1952 · Action / History · 1h 34m -
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.
- Director
- Tatsuo Ōsone
- Writers
- Isamu Nagae,Hyōgo Suzuki
- Producers
- Kōichi Takagi,Shigeki Sugiyama
