Night Drum

Year: 1958

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Tadashi Imai

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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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