A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Here's a film that perhaps overestimates the appeal of its protagonist. A freeloader gets stuck in a pleasure house at the end of the shogunate. He then schemes his way into a living there. It's a character study, for those who like that sort of character.

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Yūzō Kawashima directed A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era in 1957. See Yūzō Kawashima's full filmography, where to start with Yūzō Kawashima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yūzō Kawashima.

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era was released in 1957 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 110 minutes.