The Woman and the Pirate (1959)
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known as Misaki Shogoro, who was infamous for his devilish cruelty. Shogoro had a rule: he would kill all the men from the ships he raided, while the women would be distributed among the crew for their pleasure. However, he himself never touched any woman. Aboard the ship was a young girl named Kogane, who had been raised on the ship since she was a child and dressed as a boy. Unbeknownst to others, she had grown to secretly adore Shogoro.
Director: Daisuke Itō
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Kazuo Hasegawa as 御崎庄五郎 |
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Machiko Kyō as 綾衣 |
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Machiko Kyō as お糸 |
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Isao Kimura as 幸七 |
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Tokiko Mita as 環 |
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Keiko Yumi as 小金 |
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Ikuko Mōri as 錦 |
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Mayumi Kurata as お百 |
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Toshio Chiba as 種子島の常 |
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Yoichi Funaki as お女郎竹 |
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Akio Kobori as ゴロ丑 |
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Jun Tazaki as 大ノ字の安 |
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Shunji Sakai as 豆太夫 |
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Seizaburō Kawazu as 川島源次郎 |
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Yōko Wakasugi as 太夫一 |
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Michiyo Midori as 太夫二 |
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綾英美子 as 太夫三 |
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楠とし子 as 都 |
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Masanori Takeda as 伊留満兵衛 |
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Saburo Date as 転法利平 |
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Tarō Miyabō as 転法利平 |
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Tarō Miyabō as 法印大八 |
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Mitsugu Terashima as 中山太一郎 |
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Osamu Abe as 御相撲松 |
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Mitsusaburō Ramon as 題目の伊三 |
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Okuyama Asao as 大脇治右衛門 |
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Koji Kanda as 左り桝の市 |
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Akira Shimizu as 印伝の彦 |
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Kiyoshi Kasuga as 大明神の安 |
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Isamu Sakurai as 縄手の助 |
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河田好太郎 as 海賊 |
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Kinjiro Toyama as 海賊 |
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Kōichi Aihara as 海賊 |
| Writing | Daisuke Itō | Adaptation |
| Production | Masaichi Nagata | Producer |
| Writing | Fuji Yahiro | Adaptation |
| Sound | 大谷宏 | Recording Supervision |
| Production | 高椋廸夫 | Production Coordinator |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
| Editing | Mitsuzō Miyata | Editor |
| Production | Hisakazu Tsuji | Production Coordinator |
| Directing | Daisuke Itō | Director |
| Writing | Daisuke Itō | Original Story |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tadaoto Kainoshō | Costume Design |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Original Music Composer |
| Lighting | Gengon Nakaoka | Gaffer |
| Camera | Kazuo Miyagawa | Director of Photography |