Gonza the Spearman
鑓の権三
Gonza the Spearman On Soap2Day. The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Japan
- Director: Masahiro Shinoda
- Cast: Hiromi Go, Shōhei Hino, Misako Tanaka, Hideji Ōtaki, Takashi Tsumura, Haruko Katō, Kuniko Miyake, Eiji Shima, Natsuki Asakawa, Kaori Mizushima, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Shoichi Ozawa, Shima Iwashita, Naoto Takenaka, Mansaku Fuwa, Daikei Shimizu, Tomoko Jinbo, Jun Hamamura, Akio Kobune, Yasuko Kubota, Keiko Koyanagi,