The two ronin that Sawatari Mondonosuke saved were secret envoys from Ryukyu. They could not stand the tyranny of the Satsuma clan and were trying to appeal to the shogunate. But they were captured by someone afterwards. Mondonosuke’s boredom bug started to stir… Mondonosuke rescued the two who were imprisoned in the mansion of the chief elder, Okubo Iga-no-kami , as well as a senior official, Mamoru, and his niece, Reika , who had also escaped from Ryukyu. The Satsuma clan hired Wakura Juro to assassinate Mondonosuke through his daughter O-Ran, who is a spy …
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Part of The Notorious Bored Samurai Collection
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 8
Movie · 1993
The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
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Cast
8 people
Kinya Kitaoji
Sawatari Mondonosuke
Known for
Hanzawa Naoki
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Hiro Komura
Also in
Patissier & Mademoiselle
The Club Activity Way
Hiroyuki Nagato
Known for
Pigs and Battleships
The Insect Woman
Tadao Nakamaru
Okubo Iga-no-kami
Known for
Terror of Mechagodzilla
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Saya Takagi
Reika
Also in
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Sweet Home
Teruo Ishiyama
Mamoru
Known for
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Midori Yamamoto
O-Ran
Known for
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Ichirō Nakatani
Wakura Juro
Known for
Harakiri
Yojimbo
Akinori Matsuo Director · Seiko Shimura Screenplay Mitsuzō Sasaki Story
First release March 27, 1993 · Produced in Japan · Original title ご存知！旗本退屈男Ⅷ 琉球王朝に渦巻く暗雲！
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
ご存知！旗本退屈男Ⅷ 琉球王朝に渦巻く暗雲！
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 27, 1993
TV
No release date listed for United States.
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