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Priest of Darkness(河内山宗俊)

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Japan · 1936
1h 22m
Director Sadao Yamanaka
Starring Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Shizue Kawarazaki, Setsuko Hara
Genre Drama

Based on a well-known Kabuki drama titled "Kochiyama to Naozamurai", which Yamanaka distills into a masterpiece of jidaigeki (period film) as shomingeki (everyman drama), blending the two into something he apparently had rights to entirely in Japan during the 30s. Through a series of intrigues, Kochiyama, Naojiro (who becomes Hirotaro for the film), Ichinijo, and Hirotaro's sister Onami (played by a young Hara Setsuko) all pretty much have the worst day or two of their lives.

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