The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 95 min
  • Premiere: 1961. September 13.

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy. As the orphan boy grew up, his loving heart became bitter and he saw the opportunity to take advantage of this birthright with the help of a man who wanted to use this orphan's desire to be loved, for seizing power in the shogunate by using the imposter. Many obstacles to hurdle along the way of deception, however, will they succeed or will he be exposed?

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Utaemon Ichikawa

Yamanouchi Iganosuke

Sō Yamamura

Councilor Matsudaira Izu

Michitarō Mizushima

Akagawa Daizen

Noboru Nakaya

Fujii Sakyo

Eijirō Yanagi

Abbot Tenchu

Katsuo Nakamura

Ten'ichi-bo

Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Magistrate O'oka Echizen

Shin Tokudaiji

Yoshimune

Ushio Akashi

Ushio Koetsu

Koji Arima

Sangoro Yoshida

Ryōei Itō

Gensuke

Kinji Nakamura

Gatekeeper

Ikuo Oka

Kobozu

Gorō Naniwa

Yamajin

Kenji Nagata

Samurai

Ryōji Kōzuki

Kawaraban

Jiro Yamazaki

Treasure Sawa

Yasuo Fujita

Ynagisawa in childhood

Ko Mihashi

Hotta Mamoru

Art

Choshiro Katsura

Art Direction

Camera

Minoru Miki

Director of Photography

Directing

Nobuo Nakagawa

Director

Editing

Lighting

Kenji Tanaka

Lighting Technician

Sound

Kenjirō Tōjō

Sound Recordist

Chumei Watanabe

Original Music Composer

Writing

Shinobu Hashimoto

Screenplay