880-02 Ōkōchi Denjirō, Fujita Susumu, Enomoto Kenʼichi, Mori Masayuki, Nishina Chikayoshi (Iwai Hanshirō). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1945. A foreign film (Japan). After the Noh Ataka and Kabuki Kanjinchō.
Summary:
Derives from Noh and Kabuki plays depicting a famous twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a small group of samurai cross enemy territory disguised as monks and must persuade border guards to let them through.
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