Gonza the Spearman
15/01/1986
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
Movie Information
Hiromi Go
as Gonza Sasano
Shōhei Hino
as Bannojō Kawazura
Misako Tanaka
as Oyuki
Hideji Ōtaki
as Chūtabei Iwaki
Takashi Tsumura
as Ichinoshin Asaka
Haruko Katō
as Oyuki's nanny
Kuniko Miyake
as Iwaki's wife
Eiji Shima
as Torajirō
Natsuki Asakawa
as Hinokichi
Kaori Mizushima
as Okiku
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
as Jinbei Iwaki
Shoichi Ozawa
as Boatman
Shima Iwashita
as Osai
Naoto Takenaka
as Fumiemon
Mansaku Fuwa
as
Daikei Shimizu
as
Tomoko Jinbo
as
Jun Hamamura
as
Akio Kobune
as
Yasuko Kubota
as
Keiko Koyanagi
as
Kinji Nakamura
as
Masa Shibamoto
as
Seijiro Fukunaka
as
Tatsuo Higashida
as
Keimasa Matsumoto
as
Fumio Takeda
as
Yasushi Hirai
as
Sumiko Okutani
as
Masae Okada
as
Satoko Yamamura
as
Yoshihiro Maruo
as
Atsuo Yamashita
as
Shinji Takaoka
as
Masahiro Kintake
as
Katsuyoshi Magozaki
as
Mitsue Takaishi
as
Noriko Tori
as
Imahashi Kumi
as
