

93 minutes
4/21/1963
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.

Hashizo Okawa
as Gonza

Shirō Ōsaka

Shunji Sakai
Kiyoshi Matsukawa
Hajime Nagoya
Heitaro Gori
Hideo Shimada
Kōshirō Harada

Takamaru Sasaki
Mitsukazu Kawamura

Hiroshi Mizuhara

Kensaku Hara
Akitake Kōno
Masuo Kamiki

Akira Shioji

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Kamatari Fujiwara
Kin'nosuke Fujiki

Yoshio Yoshida
Kazuo Tokita
Ryō Daitō

Eiji Minakata

Eijirō Tōno
Kayoko Tominaga
Keiko Ogasawara
Michisaburō Segawa

Harue Akagi

Mikijiro Hira

Michimaro Otabe
Isao Takanami

Chiemi Eri