is a 1967 Japanese

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Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his ''Otoko wa Tsurai yo'' series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (''The Twilight Samurai'', ''The Hidden Blade'' and '' Love and Honor''). Biography He was born in Osaka, but due to his father's job ...

Plot summary

The movie begins in an old castle in

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with a very old woman lying in a bed, most likely dying. A priest, a

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and a man are praying in front of her bed. As they are praying, another man enters. He is a Japanese actor who, in broken German, says that he must talk to the old woman. The priest tries to hush him, but the old woman tells him to come in.

Cast

Chieko Baisho is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, she is well known for her performance as Sakura in the '' Otoko wa Tsurai yo'' series from 1969 until 1995. In addition, she has acted in many films directed by Yōji Yamada since the 1960s. She won ...

Muga Takewaki was a Japanese actor. Filmography Film * ''Assassination'' (1964) * ''Kyu-chan no Dekkai Yume'' (1967) * '' Mito Kōmon'' (1978) * '' Shōsetsu Yoshida gakkō'' (1983) - Eisaku Satō Television * '' Ōoka Echizen'' (1970-2006) - Sakakibara I ...

Hiroshi Inuzuka (born 23 March 1929, Tokyo) is a Japanese actor, comedian and bassist. Inuzuka is one of the members of the Crazy Cats. His first starring role in the film was in ''Suteki na Konban wa'' directed by Yoshitarō Nomura and played the leading rol ...

Ichirō Arishima was a Japanese comedian and actor. Nicknamed "The Japanese Chaplin", he is best known outside Japan for his appearance as Tako, the promoter of King Kong in ''King Kong vs. Godzilla'' (1962). Arishima's real name was Tadao Oshima. He was bor ...

* Yumiko Kokonoe

References

1967 films 1967 comedy films Films directed by Yoji Yamada Japanese comedy films 1960s Japanese-language films 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub