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Performed in 2004, 97 minutes, English commentary and subtitles, Region Code All, NTSC. Featuring the amazing veteran onnagata actor Nakamura Jakuemon (born 1920), Matsumoto Koshiro, and another popular veteran Nakamura Shikan (born 1928). Kinkakuji is the 4th act of the full play Gion Sairei Shinkoki. It is set in Kinkakuji, the famous Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. The set is quite magnificent, with golden walls and black laquer trims. The evil Daizen lives in the pavilion, who had killed the shogun and was keeping the shogun's mother captive. Daizen is a keen player of the board game called 'go', and is joined by a strategist called Daizen, who had in fact come to rescue the shogun's mother and helps poor Princess Yuki, the unfortunate object of Daizen's desire.
