The General and His Empire of Joy (1977)
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.
Director: Ikuo Sekimoto
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Eiko Matsuda as Okoyo |
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Tokuko Watanabe as Kumemura |
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Hiromi Maya as Hatsuse |
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Yūsuke Kazato as |
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Masataka Iwao as |
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Ryumei Azuma as Kikutaro |
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Akira Shioji as |
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Rena Uchimura as Nun |
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Mika Kaneko as |
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Ryuji Katagiri as |
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Takashi Noguchi as |
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Yoshinobu Hirose as |
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Shunji Sasaki as |
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Tsuyako Okajima as |
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Mie Hayashi as |
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Kayoko Tominaga as |
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Mieko Hoshino as |
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Mitsuki Shimoda as |
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Takaya Shimoyama as Sakakibara |
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Yukio Miyagi as |
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Hiroshi Hatano as Saotome |
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Yûko Asuka as Maid |
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Junpei Arishima as |
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Yasumori Hikita as |
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Koichi Tamano as |
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Kantarō Suga as Tokugawa Ietsuna |
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Aoi Nakajima as Tsuchiya Yuri |
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Masaru Shiga as |
| Directing | Ikuo Sekimoto | Director |
| Writing | Yōzō Tanaka | Writer |
| Camera | Kenji Tsukagoshi | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Tokuji Wakagi | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Kazuo Morita | Art Direction |
| Sound | Hachiro Aoyama | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Manabu Kakuhata | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | Takeo Araki | Editor |
