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The Notorious Bored Samurai 8

The Notorious Bored Samurai 8

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 27, 1993

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Action, Drama, History

Original Title

ご存知!旗本退屈男Ⅷ 琉球王朝に渦巻く暗雲!

Production Companies

Toei Company

Director

Akinori Matsuo

Description

The two ronin that Sawatari Mondonosuke saved were secret envoys from Ryukyu. They could not stand the tyranny of the Satsuma clan and were trying to appeal to the shogunate. But they were captured by someone afterwards. Mondonosuke’s boredom bug started to stir… Mondonosuke rescued the two who were imprisoned in the mansion of the chief elder, Okubo Iga-no-kami , as well as a senior official, Mamoru, and his niece, Reika , who had also escaped from Ryukyu. The Satsuma clan hired Wakura Juro to assassinate Mondonosuke through his daughter O-Ran, who is a spy …