Lord for a Night (1946)

8.0/10 112 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Kazuo Hasegawa

Hideko Takamine

Susumu Fujita

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Isuzu Yamada

Chōko Iida

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Takashi Shimura

Ichirō Sugai

Sōji Kiyokawa

Eitarō Shindō

Masao Shimizu

Hyo Kitazawa

Tamae Kiyokawa

Kikuko Hanaoka

Chieko Nakakita

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