

A samurai so bored he solves murders for fun — and this one's got POISON.
Acting
Utaemon Ichikawa's deadpan charisma — boredom never looked so cool.
Direction
Matsuda crams more plot twists into 66 minutes than most modern trilogies.

Director
Sadatsugu Matsuda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the ELEVENTH film in the Bored Hatamoto series — Utaemon Ichikawa played this character from 1930 to 1963, making him Japan's original exhausted detective archetype decades before Columbo.
The 'bored hatamoto' trope satirized the Tokugawa-era warrior class — samurai with stipends but no wars, drowning in leisure and intrigue. It's basically Downton Abbey with more beheadings.
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