About the film
based on play or musical jidaigeki restless in peacetime
Gonza the Spearman
Release Date: January 15, 1986
| Year | : | 1986 |
| Slogan | : | «Straight to ruin! Victims of the law that binds them.» |
| Genres | : | Drama |
| Production Companies | : | hyogensha, Shochiku |
| Director | : | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Producers | : | Masayuki Motomochi, Masatake Wakita, Kiyoshi Nonomura |
| Writers | : | Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Taeko Tomioka |
| RunTime | : | 126 mins. |
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
Main Actors
Hiromi Go
Character : Gonza Sasano
Shōhei Hino
Character : Bannojō Kawazura
Misako Tanaka
Character : Oyuki
Hideji Ōtaki
Character : Chūtabei Iwaki
Takashi Tsumura
Character : Ichinoshin Asaka
Haruko Katō
Character : Oyuki's nanny
Kuniko Miyake
Character : Iwaki's wife
Eiji Shima
Character : Torajirō
Natsuki Asakawa
Character : Hinokichi
Kaori Mizushima
Character : Okiku
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Character : Jinbei Iwaki
Shoichi Ozawa
Character : Boatman
Shima Iwashita
Character : Osai
Naoto Takenaka
Character : Fumiemon
Mansaku Fuwa
Character :
Daikei Shimizu
Character :
Tomoko Jinbo
Character :
Jun Hamamura
Character :
Akio Kobune
Character :
Yasuko Kubota
Character :
Keiko Koyanagi
Character :
Kinji Nakamura
Character :
Masa Shibamoto
Character :
Seijiro Fukunaka
Character :
Tatsuo Higashida
Character :
Keimasa Matsumoto
Character :
Fumio Takeda
Character :
Yasushi Hirai
Character :
Sumiko Okutani
Character :
Masae Okada
Character :
Satoko Yamamura
Character :
Yoshihiro Maruo
Character :
Atsuo Yamashita
Character :
Shinji Takaoka
Character :
Masahiro Kintake
Character :
Katsuyoshi Magozaki
Character :
Mitsue Takaishi
Character :
Noriko Tori
Character :
Imahashi Kumi
Character :
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