Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Imposter' right now, here are some important things to know about the Shochiku flick. The Imposter starring Utaemon Ichikawa, Chikako Miyagi, Keiko Kishi, Kodayu Ichikawa has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 34 min.
Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion."
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Bored Hatamoto Collection
List for the original Bored Hatamoto films starring Ichikawa Utaemon.























