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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
19577110 min
Comédie
Sortie
14 juil. 1957
Pays
Japan
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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