Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Keiju Kobayashi | Einosuke Kurihara |
Michiyo Aratama | Okiku / Kikuhime |
Yūnosuke Itō | Kenmotsu Hoshino |
Toshirō Mifune | Tsuruchiyo Niiro |
Eijirō Tōno | Masagorô Kisoya |
Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Ichigoro Hayama |
Tadao Nakamaru | Shigezo Inada |
Kaoru Yachigusa | Mitsu |
Haruko Sugimura | Tsuru |
Nami Tamura | Yae |
Shirō Ōtsuji | Kaname Kojima |
Yoshio Inaba | Keijiro Sumita |