The Imposter

The Imposter

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 14, 1952

Runtime

1h 34m

Original Title

旗本退屈男 江戸城罷り通る

Production Companies

Shochiku

Director

Tatsuo Ōsone

Description

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion.