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Release Date:
May 18, 2018
Original Title:
のみとり侍
Alternate Titles:
Flea-picking Samurai
Nomitori Samurai
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
GYAO
Hikari TV
Jidaigeki Senmon Channel
Kansai Television
Kobunsha
MBS
Mainichi Shimbun
Robot Communications
TOHO
TV Osaka
The Asahi Shimbun
Toho Pictures
Tokyu Agency
WOWOW
Yomiuri Shimbun Company
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
dentsu
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
KR: 19
Runtime: 115
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.
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Director:
Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Director of Photography:
Tomoo Ezaki
Hairstylist:
Makiko Kitagawa
Makeup Artist:
Midori Yamashita
Music Producer:
Toshihiro Sugita
Production Supervisor:
Takeshi Sato
Screenplay:
Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Story:
Shigeo Komatsu
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