The Haunted Samurai

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A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in social status came about after he prayed at a shrine in Mukojima. Stumbling home drunk one night, Hikoshiro falls down a riverbank and comes across a small run-down shrine which he is convinced is affiliated to the one in Mukojima. Pressing his hands together in prayer, he unwittingly invites the unwanted attentions of the gods of poverty, pestilence and death..

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Cast

Satoshi Tsumabuki actor

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Hidekazu Akai actor Teruyuki Kagawa actor

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Yūko Fueki actor Mari Natsuki actor Kuranosuke Sasaki actor

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Sawa Suzuki actor

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Ei Morisako actor

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Ryūta Satō actor

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Kōichi Ueda actor

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Hiromitsu Suzuki actor

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Daisuke Honda actor

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Yuu Tokui actor

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Goro Oishi actor Renji Ishibashi actor Toshiyuki Nishida actor Yosuke Eguchi actor