
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
Genpachi

Daisuke Katō
Genta

Eijirō Kataoka
Sakawa Kojūrō

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

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Tōzaburō

Chizuru Kitagawa
Shamisen Player

Yuriko Tashiro
Otane

Eitarō Shindō
Pilgrim

Toranosuke Ogawa

Kunio Kaga

Unpei Yokoyama

Kyoji Sugi

Atsushi Watanabe
Kumiko Mayama