Teinosuke Kinugasa – Kagero ezu aka Stop the Old Fox (1959)

Period action/melodrama. In 1840, retainers of the Tokugawa Shoganate harshly compete with each other in deciding the successor of the 14th Shogun Iemochi. Among them is Lord Nakano, known as the Baron of Mukōjima. To establish his grandson, Inuchiyo, as the most promising candidate, he makes efforts to get the official permission from Ienari, a retired Shogun, but who is still seizing power in place of sickly Iemochi. For Nakano, the most reliable underling is his daughter-in-law, Lady Omiyo, who has long been gaining Ienari’s favor. But not only because Ienari has problems in his health for his age, but because Omiyo’s servant, Tomi, is indeed a spy sent by Shimada Matazaemon, the rival of Nakano, he cannot advance the scario as he originally planned. One day, the local doctor Ryōan is called by Ienari’s harem to see Kikugawa, an old and noble waiting woman. Ryōan finds Kikugawa pregnant, but not before long, both the doctor and patient are secretly killed by Nakano’s order since in the harem no men except Ienari are allowed to get inside. It must evoke a big sensation if Kikugawa’s pregnancy becomes known. Meanwhile, Ienari goes into a coma induced by stroke. Worried about losing his backup, Nakano fakes up Ienari’s official permission by forcing him to sign his name. At the moment everything seems to end successfully, Nakano abruptly suffers an assault by Shin’nozuke, a friend of Ryōan, as well as the nephew of his rival Shimada. Because of Shin’nozuke’s brave act, the official permission that guarantees Inuchiyo’s accession to the throne is called off this time. However, this is not the end, but the beginning of more heated power struggles between Nakano and Shīma, which would be depicted in the sequel to this film. but, this film was never made.

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 57 min
Size: 	1.33 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	640x480 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	1 498 kb/s
BPP: 	0.163
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 126 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9FCD6ACE9303B04/Kagero.ezu.1959.1080p.Web-DL.KG.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:none