Gonza the Spearman

feature film, 1986

DIRECTED BY: Masahiro Shinoda

Gonza the Spearman

CAST:
Hiromi Gô (Gonza Sasano),
Hideji Otaki (Iwaki),
Kuniko Miyake (Iwakina žena),
Choichiro Kawarazaki (Jinbei)

SCRIPT:
Taeko Tomioka (prema drami Monzaemon Chikamatsu)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kazuo Miyagawa

Synopsis:
Gonza Sasano’s master offers him the hand of his daughter in marriage. Gonza cannot refuse his master and ends up engaged to his daughter even though he is already secretly engaged to another girl. He does that because he wants to learn the secret of the tea ceremony from his master’s family. However, his fiancée’s mother finds out about his other engagement and teaches him the ceremony of tea in advance because she wants to find out his true intentions.

color, 126 min