Lord for a Night

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a local noble must not object, and his missing younger brother is the only one who could sway him. Meanwhile, Omitsu, a hotel employee tired of Echigo-ya’s wife’s arrogance, teams up with Kitahara to stage a scheme where a vagrant young man pretends to be the noble’s lost brother, aiming to trick and embarrass the wealthy woman.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Hideko Takamine, Susumu Fujita, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Isuzu Yamada, Chōko Iida, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Takashi Shimura

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.