Lord for a Night

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a local noble must not object, and his missing younger brother is the only one who could sway him. Meanwhile, Omitsu, a hotel employee tired of Echigo-ya’s wife’s arrogance, teams up with Kitahara to stage a scheme where a vagrant young man pretends to be the noble’s lost brother, aiming to trick and embarrass the wealthy woman.

• Release date
• July 11, 1946
• Runtime
• 112 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast

Kazuo Hasegawa Hideko Takamine Susumu Fujita Denjirō Ōkōchi Isuzu Yamada Chōko Iida Mitsuko Yoshikawa Takashi Shimura