[Archive – JFFSF 2019]
★ Oct.11, 2019 Fri @ 7:15PM [San Francisco Premiere]
2012 | 113 min | with English Subtitles | Starring Kanzaburo Nakamura, Tamasaburo Bando
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 dishonorable humiliation of all. Jirozaemon seizes the haunted sword Kagotsurube which inevitably invites bloodshed once it is drawn.
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