A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

Is this for you? If you like your samurai stories with a heavy dose of slapstick and people running in circles, you’ll have a grand time. If you need your period dramas to be serious and high-stakes, steer clear. You’ll probably hate it if you get annoyed by characters who make consistently bad life choices. 🏺 Honest...


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Sadao Yamanaka

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"Is this for you? If you like your samurai stories with a heavy dose of slapstick and people running in circles, you’ll have a grand time. If you need your period dramas to be serious and high-stakes, steer clear. You’ll probably hate it if you get annoyed by characters who make consistently bad life choices. 🏺 Honestly, I went in expecting a standard sword-fighting flick, but it turned into this weird, funny treasure hunt. It feels like a precursor to the chaos you’d see in something like Hare..."

Sōji Kiyokawa
Shintarō Mimura
Japan
1936 · IMDb —


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