Word: utaemon
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...exquisiteness of Hokusai prints brought to life. The Impostor, far more popular at the Japanese ) box office, has the look of a grade A Hollywood costume adventure that was shot with an almond-eyed camera. The story opens in a geisha house, where lies "the bored baron" (Utaemon Ichikawa), the D'Artagnan of Japanese fiction, too bored even to bother with the dish that has been laid before him-and it isn't sukiyaki. Enter a messenger: a pretender to the throne has appeared. Is he or is he not the emperor's true son and heir...
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