Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket

P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo

Comedy
74 min     6     1937     Japan

Overview

A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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