An Edo Magistrate

An Edo Magistrate (1961)

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi. In a world where humans bow down to dogs and are beheaded for harming them, it's a wonder people can survive at all. Nakamura Kinnosuke is a former samurai who has left the fold to live freely and must put his life on the line to save the girl he loves, and rescue her from the yakuza who duped her brother. When the truth comes out about his background, he is forced to take on the role of Edo Magistrate, a decision that brings him unimaginable heartache and danger!

Director: Yasushi Sasaki
Writer: Naoyuki Suzuki

Casts

	Kinnosuke Nakamura as Chu/Tadasuke
	Sumiko Hidaka as
	Keiko Okawa as
	Satomi Oka as
	Isao Yamagata as
	Eijirō Tōno as
	Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as
	Juro Hoshi as
	Haruo Tanaka as
	Eiji Okada as
	Eitarō Shindō as
	Kusuo Abe as
	Kunio Kaga as
	Shinnosuke Ogata as
	Hitoshi Ōmae as
	Eiji Minakata as
	Koji Arima as
	Akiko Kazami as
	Shin Tokudaiji as
	Kazuo Nakanishi as
	Harue Akagi as
	Hanzō Kataoka as
	Yujiro Omi as
	Ryuichi Nagashima as
	Tokinosuke Nakamura as
	Kinjirô Tooyama as
	Kinji Nakamura as
	Hiroshi Mizuno as
	Yachiyo Kirishima as

Crew