# Night Drum (1958)

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**Original title**: *夜の鼓*
**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Tadashi Imai
**Written by**: Shinobu Hashimoto, Kaneto Shindō
**Starring**: Rentaro Mikuni, Ineko Arima, Masayuki Mori, Sumiko Hidaka, Keiko Yukishiro, Tomoko Naraoka

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Ghost in the Shogunate meets Rashomon in feudal Japan. A samurai returns to find his wife’s affair with a drumming tutor whispered about across the clan. Gossip boils over into a public hearing, unspooling conflicting testimonies and social rot beneath the idealized code of honor. The accused drummer refuses to fight, leaving the code itself on trial.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, paranoid, tender

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