Jūrō Tanizaki

Bored Hatamoto film #4

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Japanese horror movie from 1932.

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...

This film tells the story of a ronin falsely accused of a crime and unable to convince others of his innocence.

All that remains of the first Samurai Town Story is the concluding battle.