On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun's mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun's family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.
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Stars: Eiji Wakasugi, Yatarō Kitagami, Senjaku Nakamura, Tamao Nakamura, Yuriko Kusama, Kuniko Igawa
Crew: Tokuhei Wakao (Screenplay), 山本行雄 (Lighting Director), Seiichi Suzuki (Music), Tadaoto Kainoshō (Costume Design), Kiyoshi Kataoka (Cinematography), Taizō Fuyushima (Director)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Shochiku
Runtime: 101 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 21, 1954
IMDb: 10
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