A Samurai Never Tells a Lie (1963)
手討
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soon, an offer of marriage is brought to Harima. Trying to test his love, Okiku breaks one of the plates of the family treasure of the Aoyama family, but Harima doesn't notice. However, someone surrounding her witnesses the moment Okiku breaks the plate on purpose.
- Date of release
- 1963-05-29
- TMDB
- 9.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Tokuzō Tanaka
Casting
- Raizō Ichikawa — Harima Aoyama
- Yukiko Fuji — Okiku
- Tomisaburō Wakayama — Shindo Genjiro
- Yutaka Nakamura — Sawa Mondo
- Jūrō Sasa — Yoshimatsu
- Jun'ichirō Narita — Tonosuke Kondo
- Eijirō Yanagi — Matsudaira Izu no kami
- Michiko Ai — Ochika
- Chitose Maki — Osen
- Junko Kozakura — Outa
- Ikuko Mōri — Usugumo Tayu
- Chikako Hosokawa — Mayumi
Recommended
- Most 2003 · ★ 7.3
- The Ballad of Narayama 1983 · ★ 7.5
- Salomé 2013 · ★ 6.1
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy 1978 · ★ 7.0
- Lorelei 2020 · ★ 6.0
- The Visit 1964 · ★ 7.2
- Gracie 2007 · ★ 6.2
- Here 2024 · ★ 6.5
- Hungry Hearts 2015 · ★ 6.5
- Repast 1951 · ★ 7.6
- Cardboard Boxer 2016 · ★ 6.5
- Hands of Stone 2016 · ★ 6.6