快盗三人吉三

Overview

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun's mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun's family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.

Cast

Eiji Wakasugi

弁長

Yatarō Kitagami

安森吉三郎

Senjaku Nakamura

木屋吉三

Tamao Nakamura

木屋吉三（少年時代）

Yuriko Kusama

お島

Kuniko Igawa

弥生

Michiko Saga

おとせ

Mitsuru Chiaki

おゆき

Tomie Kawakami

およね

Chieko Naniwa

小紫の局