籠釣瓶花街酔醒
(Kagotsurube, The Haunted Sword)
Production Year: 2012
Running Time: 113min
Genre: Kabuki / Romance / Thriller
Synopsis
On the main street of the Yoshiwara pleasure district the top courtesan Yatsuhashi makes a luxurious procession through the fully blooming cherry trees. Miraculously, she happens to smile at Jirozaemon, a country merchant in the crowd. Who would have ever imagined that this momentary encounter could be the cause of fatal mass murder? A love triangle forces the courtesan to reject her best customer in the middle of a banquet – the most dishonourable humiliation of all. Jirozaemon seizes the haunted sword Kagotsurube which inevitably invites bloodshed once it is drawn.
Cast
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Bando Tamasaburo
Kataoka Nizaemon
Bando Tamasaburo
Kataoka Nizaemon