
132 minutes
10/30/2004
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

Masatoshi Nagase
as Munezô Katagiri

Takako Matsu
as Kie

Hidetaka Yoshioka
as Samon Shimada

Yukiyoshi Ozawa
as Yaichirô Hazama

Tomoko Tabata
as Shino Katagiri

Chieko Baisho
as Mrs. Katagiri

Kunie Tanaka
as Kanbê Katagiri

Sachiko Mitsumoto
as Mrs. Iseya

Reiko Takashima
as Hazama's Wife

Nana Saito
as Bun

Nenji Kobayashi
as Kôda

Ken Ogata
as Chief Retainer Hori

Min Tanaka
as Kansai Toda

Toshiki Ayata

Hiroshi Kanbe
Satoko Yamamura

Kazuhiko Kasai
Ryota Sato

Yoshiko Shinohara
Koichi Kira
Toru Iwasu
Yuuki Natsusaka

Ryuji Komine
Tsukasa Sugawara
Tamami Kaneko

Makoto Akatsuka

Mantaro Koichi

Masayasu Kitayama

Yoji Matsuda

Koen Kondo

Takashi Sasano

Yusuke Izumi