

94 minutes
2/27/1955
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.

Chiezo Kataoka
as Genpachi

Daisuke Katō
as Genta

Eijirō Kataoka
as Sakawa Kojūrō

Motoharu Ueki
as Jirō
Chie Ueki
as Okin, the Shamisen Player's Daughter

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
as Tōzaburō

Chizuru Kitagawa
as Shamisen Player

Yuriko Tashiro
as Otane

Eitarō Shindō
as Pilgrim

Toranosuke Ogawa

Kunio Kaga

Unpei Yokoyama

Kyoji Sugi

Atsushi Watanabe
Kumiko Mayama

Yoshio Yoshida
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Kakuzo Iida
Kazuo Tokita

Masao Oda

Harue Akagi

Koji Arima
Ryūtarō Aoyagi
Tominosuke Hayama
Osamu Koganei

Kajō Onoe

Kenji Kusumoto
Kyōichi Hara
Masao Katô
Mitsuo Asano
Hideo Higashi
Hideo Shimada
Mitsukazu Kawamura
Katsuya Ishimaru
Masaharu Nakano
Ayako Hidaka
Shizuka Chifune
Hachiro Yamauchi