Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant (1968)
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.
Director:
Shūe Matsubayashi
Writer:
Ryōzō Kasahara
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Hisaya Morishige as Keitarō Takayama |
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Daisuke Katō as Tsutomu Ariga |
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Keiju Kobayashi as Kenichi Honjō |
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Yōko Tsukasa as Natsuyo Honjō |
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Toshio Kurosawa as Tōru Tanaka |
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Wakako Sakai as Megumi Nakayama |
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Yuko Hama as Akiko |
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Asami Kuji as Atsuko Takayama |
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Nobuo Nakamura as Fujikawa |
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Yuriko Hanabusa as Matsuno Honjō |
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Seiji Miyaguchi as Den'nosuke Kakishima |
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Seizaburō Kawazu as Shōgo Ejiri |
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Nadao Kirino as Osamu Ejiri |
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Kawai Okada as Harumi Nakayama |
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Megumi Matsumoto as Noriko Takayama |
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Rikie Sanjō as Katsuko Kakishima |
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Sachio Sakai as Club Boy (Electra) |
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Yutaka Sada as Gatekeeper (Kinkaku-ji) |
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Shigeki Ishida as Imabari Shipbuilding Staff |
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Yasuzō Ogawa as |
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Yoshio Katsube as Record Keeper A |
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Yukihiko Gondō as Record Keeper B |
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Masaki Shinohara as |
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Kuniyoshi Kashima as |
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Takuya Yuki as |
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Kyoko Mori as |
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Tamami Urayama as Tokiko (Housemaid) |
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Kei Tani as Senkichi Akama |
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Shoichi Ozawa as Han Pei-kan |
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Keiko Sawai as Obana (Geisha) |
| Directing | Shūe Matsubayashi | Director |
| Writing | Ryōzō Kasahara | Screenplay |
| Sound | Hiroshi Miyagawa | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kiyoshi Hasegawa | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Chōshirō Ishii | Gaffer |
| Art | Hiroshi Ueda | Art Direction |
| Sound | Yoshio Nishikawa | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Sound | Hisashi Shimonaga | Sound Editor |
| Directing | Yoshimitsu Banno | Assistant Director |
| Production | Boku Morimoto | Production Manager |
| Directing | Katsumune Ishida | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kyohei Imamura | Assistant Director |
| Camera | 植村敏美 | Camera Production Assistant |
| Camera | Daisaku Kimura | Camera Production Assistant |
| Camera | 柿沼勝 | Camera Production Assistant |
| Camera | 浅野憲長 | Camera Production Assistant |
| Lighting | Shinji Kojima | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | 友成富男 | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | 畑日出夫 | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | Koji Choya | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | 阿久津薫 | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | 高瀬昇 | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | 川越和見 | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | Watanabe Yasuko | Lighting Production Assistant |
| Lighting | 村上仲蔵 | Lighting Technician |
| Lighting | 平間重和 | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | 大庭弘 | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Kazuo Miyauchi | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Hiroyuki Hirai | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | 里埜厚郎 | Sound Assistant |
| Crew | 関根正男 | Special Effects |
| Crew | 加賀見正友 | Special Effects |
| Art | 福迫望 | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Yoshio Suzuki | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Naomi Akimori | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | 早川徳重 | Construction Foreman |
| Art | 小川寿一 | Construction Manager |
| Art | 古川原昌 | Construction Manager |
| Art | 岸浪秀男 | Set Supervisor |
| Art | 早川信清 | Property Master |
| Art | Shoji Sasaki | Property Master |
| Art | 佐藤充 | Property Master |
| Lighting | 安木吉信 | Lighting Technician |
| Editing | Ume Takeda | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | 砂原泰子 | Assistant Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | 藤本美穂子 | Hairdresser |
| Costume & Make-Up | Junjirō Yamada | Hair Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | 河上知子 | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Teruyo Nogami | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | Matsuo Yoshizaki | Still Photographer |
| Production | 山本悦夫 | Casting Coordinator |
| Production | 徳増俊郎 | Accountant |
| Production | 白石剛敏 | Publicist |
| Production | Hisayuki Murakami | Production Assistant |
| Editing | Kôichi Iwashita | Editor |