Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
1991
95 minutes
Overview
When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.
Top Cast
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Hiroki Matsukata
Takahiro Tamura
Mikijiro Hira
Tetsuo Ishidate
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Sayoko Ninomiya
Yukiyo Toake
Takuzō Kawatani
Shigeru Kōyama
Kenichi Sakuragi
Goichi Yamada
Naomi Serizawa
Makoto Akatsuka
Tokue Hanazawa
Katsuhiko Watabiki
Goro Ohashi
Tadashi Yokouchi
Narrator