86 minutes
9/23/1957
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Jiromaru
Ryutaro Otomo
as Samanosuke Sasaki
Denjirō Ōkōchi
as Jubei
Yumiko Hasegawa
as Yuki-hime
Eiko Maruyama
as Chacha
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
as Danjô Matsunaga
Isao Yamagata
as Gemba Akahana
Eitarō Shindō
as Gorôdayû
Masao Mishima
as Oniyasha
Ryōsuke Kagawa
as Shôgen Unno
Kunio Kaga
as Saburôjirô Kôno
Kensaku Hara
as Saemontarô
Hiroko Sakuramachi
as Satsuki
Jotaro Togami
as Senkurô Kurata
Juro Hoshi
as Haruki Abe