Baian the Assassin ( 1981 )

Overview

This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them.

Top Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Baian Fujieda

Mayumi Ogawa

Osono

Kimie Shingyoji

Osaki

Junko Miyashita

Omon

Katsuo Nakamura

Hikojiro

Jūzō Itami

Sahei Oumiya

Susumu Fujita

Hanuemon Otowaya

Takayuki Godai

Jugoro Kosugi

Masataka Iwao

Genpachiro Isaka

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Mondo Tsuchiya

Akira Nakao

Mondonosuke

Izumi Shima

Oyumi