

100 minutes
7/30/1955
A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on the novel by Genzo Murakami. The action of the first part takes place in the late Heian period, when the Taira clan came to power, and Genji was oppressed. The great dream and ambitions of Genkuro Yoshitsune in his youth are depicted, he joins forces with his older brother Yoritomo to raise an army to defeat the Taira clan, and the second part depicts the fall of the clan, persecution and murder.

Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Minamoto Yoshitsune

Hitomi Nakahara

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
as Benkei

Isuzu Yamada

Eitarō Ozawa

Chiaki Tsukioka

Ichirō Ryūzaki

Kensaku Hara

Ushio Akashi
Tokizo Nakamura

Daijirō Natsukawa
Masaharu Nakano

Eijirō Kataoka
Hiroshi Mizuno

Motoharu Ueki
Chie Ueki

Yoshio Yoshida
Reiko Miyagawa

Takashi Kanda

Gorō Kawabe

Harumi Urazato

Kunio Kaga
Iwao Daimaru
Kinnosuke Takamatsu