Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)

Original title

幕末太陽傳

Directed by

Yuzo Kawashima

Genre

comedy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

G

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A clever con man arrives in a bustling pleasure district in late 19th century Japan. He uses his wits to swindle and charm the people he meets.

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What happens

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (Japanese: 幕末太陽傳 or 幕末太陽伝, Hepburn: Bakumatsu Taiyōden), also known as A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, is a 1957 Japanese comedy film directed by Yūzō Kawashima and written by Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka. It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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