Red lion

Okamoto here tries for a slightly comedic samurai film. A Restoration soldier heads home to tell everyone the old government has fallen. It is perhaps more amusing in theory than in execution.

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Kihachi Okamoto directed Red lion in 1969. See Kihachi Okamoto's full filmography, where to start with Kihachi Okamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kihachi Okamoto.

Red lion was released in 1969 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 117 minutes.