The General and His Empire of Joy

1h 21m

Drama

4.7

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.

Crew

Ikuo Sekimoto

Director

Yōzō Tanaka

Writer

Takeo Araki

Editor

Kenji Tsukagoshi

Director of Photography

Manabu Kakuhata

Sound Recordist

Tokuji Wakagi

Lighting Technician

Hachiro Aoyama

Original Music Composer

Kazuo Morita

Art Direction