The Swordsman and the Actress
大江戸千両囃子
Watch the swordsman and the actress soap2day. A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost love Lady Okyo gave him years ago. It turns out this fan is a precious clan heirloom whose possession, for convoluted reasons, will determine the clan's leadership. Sword-slinging bad guys descend to capture the fan, and Koharu embarks on a road trip to Edo to return the MacGuffin to the rightful hands of Lady Okyo.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Japan
- Director: Yasushi Sasaki
- Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma, Hibari Misora, Ryutaro Otomo, Michiko Ôe, Yoshiko Yashioji, Chie Ueki, Kyū Sazanka, Kunio Kaga, Ayuko Saijō, Shunji Sakai, Kazuo Kishida, Kin'nosuke Fujiki,
