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Gonza The Spearman

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english title Gonza The Spearman
year1986
countryJapan


cast & crew

director SHINODA Masahiro
actor TAKENAKA Naoto - 竹中直人
OZAWA Shoichi
HAMAMURA Jun
KAWARAZAKI Choichiro
MIYAKE Kuniko
OTAKI Hideji
HINO Shohei
IWASHITA Shima - 篠田 志麻
MISAKO Tanaka
HIROMI Go
composer TAKEMITSU Toru
original story CHIKAMATSU Monzaemon
cinematographer MIYAGAWA Kazuo


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duration126 mins


synopsis

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo 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, Bannajo sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

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