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Night Drum (1958) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1958 · 95 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Tadashi Imai
- Starring
- Eijirô Tôno, Taiji Tonoyama, Ineko Arima, Ichirô Sugai, Masayuki Mori, Nobuo Kaneko
After a year serving his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro returns home to wife Dane, hearing rumors of her affair with a famed drummer. To protect his honor, the family orders an inquiry. Witnesses recount the drummer’s tutoring of the heir, the rumor‑spreader’s motives, and the truth, revealing flaws in bushidō; it adapts Chikamatsu’s 1706 play.
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