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.
Chiezō Kataoka | Genpachi |
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata | Tōzaburō |
Chizuru Kitagawa | Shamisen player |
Yuriko Tashiro | Otane |
Daisuke Katō | Genta |
Eitarō Shindō | pilgrim |
Toranosuke Ogawa | |
Kyoji Sugi | |
Unpei Yokoyama | |
Yoshio Yoshida | |
Chie Ueki | Shamisen player's daughter |
Eijirō Kataoka | Sakawa Kojūrō (as Teruo Shimada) |