

114 minutes
6/22/1968
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

Tatsuya Nakadai
as Genta

Etsushi Takahashi
as Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)

Yuriko Hoshi
as Chino Kajii

Tadao Nakamaru
as Magobei Shôda

Akira Kubo
as Monnosuke Takei

Shigeru Kōyama
as Tamiya Ayuzawa

Eijirō Tōno
as Hyogo Moriuchi

Shin Kishida
as Jurota Arao

Atsuo Nakamura
as Tetsutaro

Nami Tamura
as Yô

Hideyo Amamoto
as Gendayu Shimada

Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Shinroku Matsuo

Isao Hashimoto
as Kônosuke Fujii

Akira Hamada
as Denzô Nishimura

Takeo Chii
as Yaheiji Yoshida
Seishirō Kuno
as Daijirô Masataka

Ben Hiura
as Busuke

Susumu Kurobe
as Kinsaburo Ayuzawa

Masao Imafuku
as Doshin - Monk
Hiroshi Hasegawa
as Injured Ronin
Emiko Suzuki
as Tomi
Yasuzō Ogawa
as Kisuke

Yutaka Nakayama
as Ronin

Ryōsuke Kagawa
as Sachu Mizoguchi
Shin Ibuki
as Injured Ronin

Chōtarō Tōgin
as Ronin

Wataru Ōmae
as Guard

Haruo Suzuki
as Banto
Hiroshi Sekita
as Ayzawa's vassal