

104 minutes
4/21/1963
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....

Raizō Ichikawa
as Kyonosuke Ninomiya / Yasutaka Ikemoto

Hizuru Takachiho
as Teruhime

Masayo Banri
as Kohagi

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Shigeru Amachi
as Sadamitsu Miki

Ryūzō Shimada

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Rieko Sumi

Nobuo Kaneko

Saburo Date

Manabu Morita
Shinjirō Asano

Yūji Hamada

Shintarō Nanjō

Shōzō Nanbu
Shinobu Araki

Eigorō Onoe

Kuniichi Takami
Kiyoshi Nakano
Jun Fuwa

Yukio Horikita

Jun Fujikawa
Akiko Inoue

Gen Kimura
Masayoshi Kikuno
Akira Shiga
Kazuo Ōbayashi
Kanji Uehara
Taizô Sengoku
Noboru Taniguchi
Takayuki Akutagawa
as Narrator (voice)
Hiroyuki Mori