A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
Original title: 幕末太陽傳
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era is a 1957 Japanese-language comedy movie directed by Yūzō Kawashima, with a running time of 1h 50m. It stars Frankie Sakai, Sachiko Hidari and Yōko Minamida.
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate, but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Cast
- Frankie Sakai as Inokori Saheiji
- Sachiko Hidari as Osome
- Yōko Minamida as Koharu
- Yūjirō Ishihara as Shinsaku Takasugi
- Izumi Ashikawa as Ohisa
- Toshiyuki Ichimura as Mokubei
- Nobuo Kaneko as Denbei
- Hisano Yamaoka as Otatsu
- Yasukiyo Umeno as Tokusaburo
- Masao Oda as Zenpachi
- Masumi Okada as Kisuke
- Toshio Takahara as Kaneji