The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
上意討ち 拝領妻始末 is of 2 hour(s) and 1 minute(s). It is Produced By: TOHO, Mifune Productions. It was released on 1967-05-27. It has the tagline: In the end, we had no choice but to have it this way. We just took a roundabout path. It has an average vote of 8.187 on TMDB.
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