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Baian the Assassin

9.0 100 mins Action   Drama   1981
Toei Company  
Director(s): Yasuo Furuhata

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.

Casts of Baian the Assassin

Kinnosuke Nakamura

as Baian Fujieda

Mayumi Ogawa

as Osono

Kimie Shingyoji

as Osaki

Junko Miyashita

as Omon

Katsuo Nakamura

as Hikojiro

Jūzō Itami

as Sahei Oumiya

Susumu Fujita

as Hanuemon Otowaya

Takayuki Godai

as Jugoro Kosugi

Masataka Iwao

as Genpachiro Isaka

Shinsuke Mikimoto

as Mondo Tsuchiya

Akira Nakao

as Mondonosuke

Izumi Shima

as Oyumi

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