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The General and His Empire of Joy
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.
| Release : | 1977 |
| Rating : | 6.1 |
| Studio : | Toei Company, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Eiko Matsuda Tokuko Watanabe Hiromi Maya Yūsuke Kazato Masataka Iwao |
| Genre : | Drama |
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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
