[I posted a theatrical trailer for Isshin Inudô's jidaigeki comedy Samurai Shifters (Hikkoshi daimyô!) last week: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x78c5me .] Synopsis for Yoshihiro Nakamura's The 47 Ronin in Debt (Kessan! Chûshingura) from the movie's international sales agent, Free Stone Productions Co. Ltd. (K.K. Furî Sutôn Purodakushonzu): "In 1701 a feudal lord, Asano, was told to kill himself by the government because he tried to kill one of its bureaucrats, Kira. Asano's right hand, Kuranosuke, organized a revenge for Asano with his samurai retainers - the so-called 'revenge of the forty-seven rônin'. In that era, a feudal domain was like a business company. Actually, at first Kuranosuke tries not to do the revenge and instead keep the feudal domain = company alive. However, things go well, and people in Edo expect them to get revenge against Kira. Finally, Kuranosuke decides to go for the revenge, but then he realizes they don't have enough money left to prepare for it... The truth of the loyal samurai story is revealed with a hilarious comedy!?"
