MITO KOMON - ALL STAR EDITION

(Mito Komon)

1960 – Color - 94 min.  –  REMASTERED ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (16:9)

Starring: KATAOKA Chiezo, ICHIKAWA Utaemon

                TSUKIGATA Ryunosuke, OKA Satomi

                AZUMA Chiyonosuke, NAKAMURA Kinnosuke

                OTOMO Ryutaro, OKAWA Hashizo

Directed by: MATSUDA Sadatsugu

 COURTESY OF ICHIBAN

After a rash of fires strikes the Kyoto area, the task of finding who's behind the arson, and stopping them falls to the shogun's uncle, elder lord of Mito, Tokugawa Mitsukuni. Together with his trusted bodyguards, Kaku and Suke, the trio set off to save Japan from this scourge of evil. This all-star version features virtually all of Toei's most famous samurai movie stars, including Tsukigata Ryunosuke, Nakamura Kinnosuke, Oka Satomi, Azuma Chiyonosuke, Okawa Hashizo, Otomo Ryutaro, Kataoka Chiezo, and Ichikawa Utaemon! This is the best film about Mito Komon, one of Japan's most popular historical figures who traveled through the country incognito to check on the people and fight injustice.