影狩り
director:
井上昭
playwright:
Motomu Furuta
/
国弘威雄
actor:
Toshiya Ito
/
The Snake
/
Daisuke Ryū
/
Midori Yamamoto
/
Eitarō Ozawa
…
genre:
Drama
/
History
/
Action
language:
Japanese
length: 1h 31m
release date: 1983-10-06
IMDb: tt28547773
影狩り
overview
The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayors of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.