Film

Messengers to Satsuma

1982 · 1h 32m · Drama

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...

Mikijiro Hira

Kiwako Taichi

Yōsuke Kondō

Yūki Mizuhara

Tatsuo Matsumura

Tomo'o Nagai

Kinji Nakamura

Isao Hashimoto

Tarō Nanshū

Nobuo Kawai

Goro Ohashi

• Kazuo MoriDirector
• Sakae HirosawaScreenplay
• Jiro OsaragiNovel

Release date

November 26, 1982

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Drama