Gonza the Spearman
1986-01-15 | 126 min
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.
Genres
Drama
Cast
Hiromi Go
Shōhei Hino
Misako Tanaka
Hideji Ōtaki
Takashi Tsumura
Haruko Katō
Kuniko Miyake
Eiji Shima
