Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

1952 1h 34m JA

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Synopsis

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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.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Utaemon Ichikawa
Saotome Mondonosuke
Chikako Miyagi
霧島京彌
Keiko Kishi
菊路
Kodayu Ichikawa
松平左近将監
Kuniko Igawa
萩乃
Kōkichi Takada
徳川浄海坊
Joji Kaieda
徳川将軍
Eijirō Yanagi
北村内膳正

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tatsuo Ōsone
Writers: Mitsuzō Sasaki, Isamu Nagae, Hyōgo Suzuki
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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74 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Bored Hatamoto Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Utaemon Ichikawa and Chikako Miyagi and Keiko Kishi carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt18555328 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Tatsuo Ōsone directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

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174 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Bored Hatamoto Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Utaemon Ichikawa and Chikako Miyagi and Keiko Kishi carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt18555328 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.