Film

The Bored Samurai

1983 · 1h 31m · Drama

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!

Mikijiro Hira

Saotome Mondonosuke

Eitarō Ozawa

Genshichiro Matsudaira

Mami Kumagai

Ogin

Makoto Akatsuka

Yaguruma Benji

Masao Imafuku

Jinnai Sugimura

Taiji Tonoyama

Father of Ogin

Yataro Kurokawa

Odagiri Sadonokami

Chiyonosuke Azuma

Tokugawa Tsunanari

Saburo Date

Ikeda Kazue

Mitsuo Nagata

Naizen

Chiaki Matsubara

Kikuji

Shunya Wazaki

Torahiko Hamada

• Kazuo MoriDirector
• Kenrō MatsuuraScreenplay
• Mitsuzō SasakiNovel
• Hiroshi YamadaEditor

Release date

February 25, 1983

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama

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