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A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..Read moreLess
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..
The story
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..
Cast & crew
Satoshi TsumabukiBessho Hikoshiro
Hidekazu AkaiCast
Teruyuki KagawaCast
Yuko FuekiYae
Mari NatsukiCast
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Sawa SuzukiCast
Ei MorisakoCast
Ryuta SatoCast
Koichi UedaCast
Hiromitsu SuzukiCast
Daisuke HondaCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Yasuo Furuhata
- Producer
- Keita Senoo
- Producer
- 鈴木俊明
- Producer
- Tsutomu Nagasaka
- Producer
- Takashi Hirano
- Screenplay
- Yasuo Furuhata
- Screenplay
- Toshiki Kokubo
- Screenplay
- 土屋保文
- Director of Photography
- Daisaku Kimura
- Editor
- Koichi Sonoi
- Original Music Composer
- Yôko Kumagai
- Original Music Composer
- Hidehiko Urayama