Plot
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to recite poems. Hironoshin is asked to give his opinion and foolishly comments that the piece was plagiarized. Infuriated, Tadakiyo orders Hironoshin to live his life without honor as a ‘cat flea picker', which is in fact a pseudonym for a male prostitute. The honest and straight-shooting Hironoshin convinces himself that he has no other options, and resigns himself to live as a sex worker. Hironoshin becomes an apprentice to a flea-picker boss who encourages him, convinced that Hironoshin is exacting revenge in the guise of a prostitute.
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Cast
Hiroshi Abe
Hironoshin Kobayashi
Shinobu Terajima
Omine
Etsushi Toyokawa
Seibee
Takumi Saitoh
Tomonosuke Saeki
Morio Kazama
Jinbee
Atsuko Maeda
Ochie
Shinobu Otake
Orin
Rin Asuka
