Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

旗本退屈男 江戸城罷り通る

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion.

Director

Tatsuo Ōsone

Screenplay

Isamu Nagae

Screenplay

Hyōgo Suzuki

Status

Released

Release date

14/01/1952

Original language

Japanese