16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.
Cast
Crew
Shigemichi Sugita
Director
Yōzō Tanaka
Screenplay
Kaneo Ikegami
Novel
Chizuko Osada
Editor
Mutsuo Naganuma
Director of Photography
William Ireton
Executive Producer
Toshiya Nomura
Producer
Wataru Okada
Producer
Tomoyuki Miyagawa
Producer
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Production Design
Tetsuo Segawa
Sound Editor
Toyotaka Nakaji
Sound Recordist
Takashi Kako
Original Music Composer
Hideko Nakata
Script Supervisor
Hideshi Nakagomi
Decorator
Takaaki Miyanishi
Gaffer
Tetsuo Harada
Art Direction
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