Overview

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun's mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun's family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.

Top Cast

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Eiji Wakasugi

弁長

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Yatarō Kitagami

安森吉三郎

Senjaku Nakamura

木屋吉三

Tamao Nakamura

木屋吉三（少年時代）

Y

Yuriko Kusama

お島

Kuniko Igawa

弥生

Michiko Saga

おとせ

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Mitsuru Chiaki

おゆき

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Tomie Kawakami

およね

Chieko Naniwa

小紫の局

Reiko Kitami

粂村

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Kyōko Kusajima

萩乃