Samurai Hustle

Japanese comedy set in Edo times. The Tokugawa shoguns rule with a system called sankin koutai, which mandated lords to make regular and costly pilgrimages to the capital. Naito, a kindly ruler who presides over a humble estate, is put under pressure when he is ordered by the shogun to appear in Edo in only five days. The journey - an eight day job at least - is undertaken in earnest with no time, money or people for the job...

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