The General and His Empire of Joy

Zenjiro Masaru Shiga is a lowlife criminal roaming the country with his merry band of crooks gamblers and rapists When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurais wife he finds that his love Okoyo Eiko Matsuda has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsunas Kantaro Suga concubines While attempting to win her back Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues