A fish market move starts an Edo riot and someone's gonna take the blame.
The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemon Ookubo (Eijiro Tono) heard of it from Tasuke, and ask about it to Iemitsu (Ken Tanaka). However, on the contrary, Hikosaemon received penitence for a bribe that he doesn't know.
Acting
Eijirō Tōno's magnificent suffering as the wronged vassal.
Direction
Kazuo Mori balancing slapstick and systemic cruelty.
Director
Kazuo Mori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the long-running 'Edo Jidai' series, this entry satirizes the Tokugawa bureaucracy that other samurai films romanticize.
Eijirō Tōno played the same role across multiple decades; his aged, weary Hikosaemon became iconic for embodying the put-upon everyman samurai.
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