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Kinuyo Tanaka
Tamaki
Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Zushiô
Kyōko Kagawa
Anju
Eitarō Shindō
Sanshô dayû
Ichirō Sugai
Minister of Justice
Bontarō Miake
Kichiji
Yōko Kozono
Kohagi
Chieko Naniwa
Ubatake
Kikue Mōri
Priestess
Ken Mitsuda
Prime Minister Fujiwara
Masao Shimizu
Masauji Taira
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Ritsushi Kumotake
Akitake Kōno
Taro
Kanji Koshiba
Kaikudo Naito
Shinobu Araki
Sadaya
Masahiko Tsugawa
Young Zushiō
Keiko Enami
Young Anju
Teruko Omi
Nakagimi
Kimiko Tachibana
Namiji
Reiko Kongō
Shiono
Shōzō Nanbu
Masasue Taira
Ryōnosuke Azuma
Landlord
Kazukimi Okuni
Norimura
Saburo Date
Kimpei
Sumao Ishihara
Yakko
Ichirō Amano
Midori Komatsu
Harbour's Lady
Yukio Horikita
Jiro
Jun Fujikawa
Kanamaru
Sōji Shibata
Sado Man
Akira Shimizu
Slave Trader
Tokio Oki
Harbour's Man
Akira Shiga
Farmer #2
Goro Nakanishi
Hachiro Okuni
Saburo Miyazaki
Akiyoshi Kikuno

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Jan 04 2023

When a benign provincial governor tries to intervene to protect his people from the brutality of the military, he is stripped of his rank and banished. His wife and children are forced to follow him, on foot, some time later and hopelessly ill-equipped for that task they fall prey to people traffickers who split the family up. The young daughter and son soon find themselves bought by the eponymous character and forced into cruel manual labour that only his son "Taro" (Akitake Kôno) seems at all concerned about. Can he help? Can they manage to keep some semblance of their erstwhile decency and n...