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Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit (1991)

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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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Tokuzō Tanaka
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    Kinnosuke Nakamura
  • Profile picture of Tomisaburō Wakayama
    Tomisaburō Wakayama
  • Profile picture of Hiroki Matsukata
    Hiroki Matsukata
  • Profile picture of Takahiro Tamura
    Takahiro Tamura
  • Profile picture of Mikijiro Hira
    Mikijiro Hira
  • Profile picture of Tetsuo Ishidate
    Tetsuo Ishidate
  • Profile picture of Shinsuke Mikimoto
    Shinsuke Mikimoto
  • Profile picture of Sayoko Ninomiya
    Sayoko Ninomiya

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