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March 1979 (USA)
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Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration...
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extremely boring - very disappointing
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(Credited cast)| Yoshizaburo Arashi | ... | Lord Takuminokami Asano | |
| Utaemon Ichikawa | ... | Tsunatoyo Tokugawa | |
| Daisuke Katô | ... | Fuwa Kazuemon | |
| Chojuro Kawarasaki | ... | Kuranosuke Oishi | |
| Kunitaro Kawarazaki | ... | Jurozaemon Isogai | |
| Seizaburô Kawazu | ... | Lord Etchumori Hosokawa | |
| Mantoyo Mimasu | ... | Kozunosuke Kira | |
| Mitsuko Miura | ... | Yosenin, Asano's wife | |
| Kan'emon Nakamura | ... | Sukeimon Tomimori | |
| Mieko Takamine | ... | Omino, Isogai's fiancee |
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Based on a true story, a version of which can be read in Jorge Luis Borges's short story collection, 'A Universal History of Infamy', under the title 'The Uncivil Teacher of Etiquette, Kotsuke no Suke'.
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Referenced in Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1975)
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I was profoundly disappointed in this film. It is 3 hour and 40+ minutes long and not much of anything happens in it. People just sit on the floor in various rooms and say things like what are we going to do, what does so and so think, I'm not sure, maybe we should ask someone else, I don't know, do you know, I'm so confused, etc. This goes on ad nauseum literally for hours.
Kenji Mizoguchi was a 1st class director who made such classics as Sansho he Bailiff and Tales of Ugetsu. Don't don't blame him for this one - he was supposedly commissioned by the Japanese government to make this.