Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
Cast
Chiezo Kataoka
Genpachi
Daisuke Katō
Genta
Eijirō Kataoka
Sakawa Kojūrō
Motoharu Ueki
Jirō
Chie Ueki
Okin, the Shamisen Player's Daughter
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Tōzaburō
Chizuru Kitagawa
Shamisen Player
Yuriko Tashiro
Otane
Eitarō Shindō
Pilgrim
Toranosuke Ogawa
Unknown
Kunio Kaga
Unknown
Unpei Yokoyama
Unknown
Kyoji Sugi
Unknown
Atsushi Watanabe
Unknown
Kumiko Mayama
Unknown
Yoshio Yoshida
Unknown
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Unknown
Kakuzo Iida
Unknown
Kazuo Tokita
Unknown
Masao Oda
Unknown
Harue Akagi
Unknown
Koji Arima
Unknown
Ryūtarō Aoyagi
Unknown
Tominosuke Hayama
Unknown
Osamu Koganei
Unknown
Kajō Onoe
Unknown
Kenji Kusumoto
Unknown
Kyōichi Hara
Unknown
Masao Katô
Unknown
Mitsuo Asano
Unknown
Hideo Higashi
Unknown
Hideo Shimada
Unknown
Mitsukazu Kawamura
Unknown
Katsuya Ishimaru
Unknown
Masaharu Nakano
Unknown
Ayako Hidaka
Unknown
Shizuka Chifune
Unknown
Hachiro Yamauchi
Unknown
Crew
Tomu Uchida
Director
Toshio Tamikado
Writer
Shintarō Mimura
Writer
Fuji Yahiro
Writer
Shintarō Miyamoto
Editor
Sadaji Yoshida
Director of Photography
Asaji Tomita
Assistant Director
Hiroshi Okawa
Executive Producer
Masanobu Hayashi
Makeup Artist
Kenjirō Tōjō
Sound Recordist
Taichiro Kosugi
Original Music Composer
Takatoshi Suzuki
Art Direction
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