Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Cast
Rie Miyazawa
Princess Goh
Tatsuya Nakadai
Oribe Furuta
Toshiya Nagasawa
Usu
Matsumoto Hakuō II
Ukon Takayama
Rentaro Mikuni
Junsai
Kyōko Enami
Towa
Hisashi Igawa
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Kei Suma
Gamo
Kei Yamamoto
Hosokawa
Kyoko Maya
Okin
Tetsuya Bessho
Unknown
Tokue Hanazawa
Unknown
Yasushi Higuchi
Unknown
Yūsuke Kawazu
Unknown
Akira Nagoya
Unknown
Katsuhiro Oida
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Hako Ueno
Prostitute
Crew
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director, Writer
Genpei Akasegawa
Writer
Masaharu Fuji
Novel
Toshio Taniguchi
Editor
Fujio Morita
Director of Photography
Umeo Minamino
Assistant Director
Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Executive Producer
Kanako Nishimura
Hairstylist
Gengon Nakaoka
Lighting Director
Toru Takemitsu
Original Music Composer
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
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