Kunoichi Keshō (1964)

Original title

くノ一化粧

Directed by

Sadao Nakajima

Genre

action, romance, fantasy

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Japanese comedy set in the samurai era. It follows a female ninja or spy involved in intrigues and disguises.

comediclightheartedplayfulhistoricalwhimsicalactioncampyretro

What happens

Kunoichi Keshō (Japanese: くノ一化粧), also known as The Spying Sorceress is a 1964 Japanese comedy jidaigeki film directed by Sadao Nakajima. Nakajima himself did the casting and Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Kō Nishimura and Masumi Harukawa were cast from Shohei Imamura's film Unholy Desire because he was impressed with the film. It is based on Futaro Yamada's novel of the same title and is the second in Toei's Kunoichi film series based on Yamada's works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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