Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit (1991)
When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.
Director:
Tokuzō Tanaka
Writer:
Tatsuo Nogami
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Kinnosuke Nakamura as |
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as |
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Hiroki Matsukata as |
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Takahiro Tamura as |
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Mikijiro Hira as |
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Tetsuo Ishidate as |
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Shinsuke Mikimoto as |
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Sayoko Ninomiya as |
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Yukiyo Toake as |
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Takuzō Kawatani as |
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Shigeru Kōyama as |
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Kenichi Sakuragi as |
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Goichi Yamada as |
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Naomi Serizawa as |
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Makoto Akatsuka as |
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Tokue Hanazawa as |
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Katsuhiko Watabiki as |
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Goro Ohashi as |
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Tadashi Yokouchi as Narrator |
| Directing | Tokuzō Tanaka | Director |
| Writing | Shotaro Ikenami | Original Story |
| Writing | Tatsuo Nogami | Screenplay |
| Sound | Mineo Tanaka | Sound Recordist |
| Art | Ryuji Tsukamoto | Art Direction |
| Sound | Toshiyuki Watanabe | Original Music Composer |