Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
THE GENERAL AND HIS EMPIRE OF JOY
Ooku ukiyo-buro
Synopsis
Masaru Shinga stars as Ryuken, a samurai who falls in love with a young virgin named Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), but she is already marked for addition to the shogun’s harem. Not to be deterred, Ryuken blackmails a pedophilic monk and gets into the palace through a secret passage.
Synopsis
Masaru Shinga stars as Ryuken, a samurai who falls in love with a young virgin named Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), but she is already marked for addition to the shogun’s harem. Not to be deterred, Ryuken blackmails a pedophilic monk and gets into the palace through a secret passage.