As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it turns out that it was reaching Edo through smuggling purchased from foreign ships. However, Nagasaki magistrate Toyama Saemon-no-jo is powerless to do anything about it, and his only hope is his own son, Kinshiro... In order to eradicate the great conspiracy lurking in the inner palace of Edo and the drug scourge, Toyama Kin-san disguises himself as a pirate and boards a smuggling ship, sailing across the Kuroshio Current to the port of Nagasaki in this thrilling and dashing tale of a villain who slays evil.
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18 films
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Cast
14 people
Chiezo Kataoka
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Kenji Usuda
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Eijirō Kataoka
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
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Koji Arima
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The Red Shadow
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Ryōsuke Kagawa
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Ugetsu
Sansho the Bailiff
Shinobu Araki
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Sansho the Bailiff
Gate of Hell
Eitarō Shindō
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Sansho the Bailiff
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Kunio Kaga
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.10: Demon Naruto
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Kusuo Abe
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Isao Yamagata
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Samurai Rebellion
Yuriko Tashiro
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Late Autumn
Yumiko Hasegawa
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Works of the Fish Man
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Kinnosuke Fukada Director · Hajime Takaiwa Screenplay Tatsuro Jinde Story
First release February 25, 1957 · Produced in Japan · Original title 海賊奉行
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
海賊奉行
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · February 25, 1957
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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