The General and His Empire of Joy

The General and His Empire of Joy (1977)

Drama

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.

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  • Release Date: 1977-02-11
  • Runtime: 1h 21min
  • Director: Ikuo Sekimoto

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Cast

  • Eiko Matsuda

    Okoyo

  • Tokuko Watanabe

    Kumemura

  • Hiromi Maya

    Hatsuse

  • Yūsuke Kazato

  • Masataka Iwao

  • Ryumei Azuma

    Kikutaro

  • Akira Shioji

  • Rena Uchimura

    Nun

  • Mika Kaneko

  • Ryuji Katagiri

  • Takashi Noguchi

  • Yoshinobu Hirose

  • Shunji Sasaki

  • Tsuyako Okajima

  • Mie Hayashi

  • Kayoko Tominaga

  • Mieko Hoshino

  • Mitsuki Shimoda

  • Takaya Shimoyama

    Sakakibara

  • Yukio Miyagi

  • Hiroshi Hatano

    Saotome

  • Yûko Asuka

    Maid

  • Junpei Arishima

  • Yasumori Hikita

  • Koichi Tamano

  • Kantarō Suga

    Tokugawa Ietsuna

  • Aoi Nakajima

    Tsuchiya Yuri

  • Masaru Shiga

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