17 Oct 1930
Bored Hatamoto
Bored Hatamoto film #1
Basara: The Princess Goh
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Top Billed Cast
宮沢りえ Princess Goh
仲代達矢 Oribe Furuta
永澤俊矢 Usu
二代目 松本白鸚 Ukon Takayama
三国連太郎 Junsai
江波杏子 Towa
井川比佐志 Tokugawa Ieyasu
すまけい Gamo
山本圭 Hosokawa
真野響子 Okin
別所哲也 
花沢徳衛 樋口靖 
川津祐介 
名古屋章 Katsuhiro Oida Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Hako Ueno Prostitute
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