Nomitori Samurai (2018)
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.
Director:
Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Writer:
Yasuo Tsuruhashi
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Hiroshi Abe as Hironoshin Kobayashi |
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Shinobu Terajima as Omine |
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Etsushi Toyokawa as Seibee |
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Takumi Saitoh as Tomonosuke Saeki |
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Morio Kazama as Jinbee |
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Atsuko Maeda as Ochie |
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Shinobu Otake as Orin |
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Rin Asuka as |
| Costume & Make-Up | Midori Yamashita | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Makiko Kitagawa | Hairstylist |
| Writing | Yasuo Tsuruhashi | Screenplay |
| Writing | Shigeo Komatsu | Story |
| Directing | Yasuo Tsuruhashi | Director |
| Camera | Tomoo Ezaki | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Toshihiro Sugita | Music Producer |
| Production | Takeshi Sato | Production Supervisor |
| Art | Kouji Kiwanami | Decorator |
| Production | Yuko Hata | Producer |