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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era is a film of genre Drama directed by Yūzō Kawashima with Frankie Sakai
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
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Add to a movie listSun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (幕末太陽傳 or 幕末太陽伝, Bakumatsu taiyōden) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film comedy directed by Yuzo Kawashima with a screenplay by Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka. It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999.
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It is set during the last days of the Shogunate. Saheiji (played by comedian Frankie Sakai) seeks to outwit the inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive in straitened times. A group of samurai meanwhile seek to destroy any foreigners that cross their path.Actors
Frankie Sakai
(Inokori Saheiji)
Yōko Minamida
(Koharu)
Sachiko Hidari
(Osome)
Yujiro Ishihara
(Takasugi Shinsaku)
Nobuo Kaneko
(Denbei)
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