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The General and His Empire of Joy

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Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.

Date: 02/11/1977

Rating: 4.5

Cast: Eiko Matsuda, Tokuko Watanabe, Hiromi Maya, Yūsuke Kazato, Masataka Iwao, Ryumei Azuma, Akira Shioji, Rena Uchimura, Mika Kaneko, Ryuji Katagiri, Takashi Noguchi, Yoshinobu Hirose, Shunji Sasaki, Tsuyako Okajima, Mie Hayashi, Kayoko Tominaga, Mieko Hoshino, Mitsuki Shimoda, Takaya Shimoyama, Yukio Miyagi, Hiroshi Hatano, Yûko Asuka, Junpei Arishima, Yasumori Hikita, Koichi Tamano, Kantarō Suga, Aoi Nakajima, Masaru Shiga

Eiko Matsuda