Gonza the Spearman

Name: Gonza the Spearman
Genre: Drama
Released: 15 Jan 1986
Rating: 7.00
Cast: Hiromi Go, Shōhei Hino, Misako Tanaka, Hideji Ōtaki, Takashi Tsumura

Straight to ruin! Victims of the law that binds them. 1986-01-15 Japan 126 minutes.

7.00 16 votes

Drama based on play or musical jidaigeki edo period restless in peacetime

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The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

Year 1986

Studio hyogensha, Shochiku

Director Masahiro Shinoda

Crew Monzaemon Chikamatsu (Theatre Play), Masahiro Shinoda (Director), Masatake Wakita (Producer), Masahiro Katō (Costume Design), Kiyoshi Awazu (Art Direction), Masayuki Motomochi (Producer)

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Language 日本語