Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit - Full Cast & Crew
1991
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When Nizaemon Kumokiri (Kinnosuke Yorozuya), a major thief, quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge amount 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 with, Matsuya Yoshibei (Shinsuke Mikimoto) his female subordinate, Nanabake no Ochiyo (Sayoko Ninomiya). He then calls Yamaneko no Sanji (Takuzo Kawatani), a skilled locksmith, to Nagoya, but a bandit named Yagura no Fukuemon (Tomisaburo Wakayama), who is plotting to intercept the thief, plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu (Matsukata Hiroki), the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory, who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya. .