Overview

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Top Cast

Machiko Kyō

Sakin

Masayuki Mori

Kuroki no Taro

Rentaro Mikuni

Kuroki no Jiro

Takashi Shimura

Yoshimichi

Minoru Chiaki

Takeichi no Takamaru

Bokuzen Hidari

Yūnosuke Itō

Dohachi

Tanie Kitabayashi

Mrs. Inokuma

Yūko Mochizuki

Kotora

Ichirō Sugai

Mr. Inokuma

Eijirō Tōno

Jurota