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8 January 1981 (USA)
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Spectacle without subtlety
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Kaori Momoi | ... | Ine | |
| Shigeru Izumiya | ... | Genji | |
| Ken Ogata | ... | Furukawa | |
| Shigeru Tsuyuguchi | ... | Kinzo | |
| Masao Kusakari | ... | Itoman | |
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| Ako | ... | Oyoshi | |
| Mitsuko Baisho | ... | Oko | |
| Junzaburô Ban | ... | Toramatsu | |
| Jirô Chiba | ... | Senmatsu (as Jiro Yabuki) | |
| Shôhei Hino | ... | Magoshichi | |
| Shino Ikenami | ... | Yoshino | |
| Etsuko Ikuta | ... | Nui | |
| Hiroshi Inuzuka | ... | Roku | |
| Choichiro Kawarazaki | ... | Nakazawa | |
| Kazuo Kitamura | ... | Koide | |
| Nenji Kobayashi | ... | Matakichi | |
| Yasuaki Kurata | ... | Hanjiro | |
| Norihei Miki | ... | Masuya | |
| Shoichi Ozawa | ... | Sakunojo | |
| Sanshô Shinsui | ... | Densuke | |
| Kazuko Shirakawa | ... | Yamikumo-dayu | |
| Yûko Tanaka | ... | Omatsu | |
| Kibaji Tankobo | ... | Gon | |
| Minori Terada | ... | Ijuin | |
| Taiji Tonoyama | ... | Jyosyuya | |
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151 min
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Featured in "Cinéma, de notre temps: Shohei Imamura - Le libre penseur" (1995)
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This busy, hectic movie is a bit hard to follow. Like a Mardi Gras film, with political confrontation, and wild swirling colors. But not as subtle or as personal as Nianchan (My Second Brother), Unagi (The Eel) or Narayama bushiko (The Ballad of Narayama) by Shohei Imamura.