治郎吉格子
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet for her. Osan was a woman being sold off for the sake of her yakuza-like brother, Nin'kichi. The man in the guise of a merchant turned out to be the Rat Thief, Jirokichi, the infamous thief of Edo. Due to this chance encounter, the two ended up staying at the same hot spring inn. However, one morning, as Jirokichi was about to leave alone, Osan, with the intuition of a smitten woman, confessed she knew he was the famed Rat Thief.
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Kazuo Hasegawa
治郎吉 / 道中師
Known for
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Gate of Hell
Mieko Takamine
お仙
Known for
The 47 Ronin
Keiko Kishi
お喜乃
Known for
The Makioka Sisters
Early Spring
Eitarō Shindō
仁吉
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Akitake Kōno
久六
Known for
Sansho the Bailiff
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
今井清行
松公
No other roles listed
Kodayu Ichikawa
重松左次兵衛
Also in
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Jushiro Kobayashi
真田丸
Also in
Military Train
The Eagle and the Hawk
水上杢太郎
八幡
Also in
続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻
Denshichi Torimonocho: Silver Snake Spell
小林立美
近江
Also in
Daikichi Konomura
Yoshito Yamaji
朝比奈
Known for
The Tale of Zatoichi
Miss Wakasa
お才
Also in
Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again
The Tattooed Lord
Daisuke Itō Director · Eiji Yoshikawa Story Shiro Fukai Composer
First release February 22, 1952 · Produced in Japan
Production
Shochiku
Production
Japan
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Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · February 22, 1952
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No release date listed for United States.
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