Jan 15, 1986
126 min
Full-HD

Gonza the Spearman (1986)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

hyogensha Shochiku

Hiromi Go

Gonza Sasano

Shōhei Hino

Bannojō Kawazura

Misako Tanaka

Oyuki

Hideji Ōtaki

Chūtabei Iwaki

Takashi Tsumura

Ichinoshin Asaka

Haruko Katō

Oyuki's nanny

Kuniko Miyake

Iwaki's wife

Eiji Shima

Torajirō

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