A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Movie

Comedy

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

Date: 07/14/1957

Rating: 7.2

Cast: Frankie Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida, Yūjirō Ishihara, Izumi Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Ichimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Hisano Yamaoka, Yasukiyo Umeno, Masao Oda, Masumi Okada, Toshio Takahara, Tomio Aoki, Sanpei Mine, Kin Sugai, Shoichi Ozawa, Kenjiro Uemura, Akitake Kōno, Kō Nishimura, Kazuo Kumakura, Taiji Tonoyama, Hiroshi Kato, Hideaki Nitani, Akira Kobayashi, Shosei Muto, Reiko Arai, Hyōe Enoki, Toyo Fukuda, Shōbun Inoue, Ryusei Ito, Nobuo Kawakami, Ikunosuke Koizumi, Akio Miyabe, Yoko Takeuchi, Aomi Shiba, Chiyoko Shimizu, Chigusa Takayama, Zenji Yamada, Takeshi Katō

Frankie Sakai