The General and His Empire of Joy

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.

3.625

81 min

Cast

Eiko Matsuda

as Okoyo

Tokuko Watanabe

as Kumemura

Hiromi Maya

as Hatsuse

Yūsuke Kazato

Masataka Iwao

Ryumei Azuma

as Kikutaro

Akira Shioji

Rena Uchimura

as Nun

Mika Kaneko

Ryuji Katagiri

Takashi Noguchi

Yoshinobu Hirose

Shunji Sasaki

Tsuyako Okajima

Mie Hayashi

Kayoko Tominaga

Mieko Hoshino

Mitsuki Shimoda

Takaya Shimoyama

as Sakakibara

Yukio Miyagi

Hiroshi Hatano

as Saotome

Yûko Asuka

as Maid

Junpei Arishima

Yasumori Hikita

Koichi Tamano

Kantarō Suga

as Tokugawa Ietsuna

Aoi Nakajima

as Tsuchiya Yuri

Masaru Shiga

Director

Ikuo Sekimoto