

159 minutes
9/20/1974
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.

Hideki Takahashi
as Sugi Toranosuke

Ken Ogata
as Nakamura Hanjiro

Teruhiko Saigō
as Okita Soji

Masaomi Kondo
as Iba Hachiro

Keiko Matsuzaka
as Reiko

Kiwako Taichi
as Ohide

Asao Sano
Ayako Honami

Toru Minegishi

Takahiro Tamura
as Ikemoto Mohei

Taketoshi Naitō

Jūkei Fujioka

Kenji Imai

Tōru Abe
Shunya Wazaki
Toyoto Fukuda
Hinode Nishikawa
Taro Jin
Chisato Aoki

Reiko Kasahara
Kaori Taniguchi

Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Jiro Sakagami

Hirokazu Inoue
Kunji Harada

Riki Harada
Jun Kashima
Kentarō Imai
Ryûsuke Kita
Hideaki Komori

Taku Kido
Hideto Nakagawa
Shuichi Oki

Sōnosuke Oda
Kenji Sonoda
Takuya Shiba
Terumitsu Kawashima
Seishiro Hara

Yukio Horikita
Seiichi Yoshida
Kôei Yamamoto
Kenji Kimura
Akihiko Hanyû
Natsuko Oka