Overview
Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A scuffle initiated by Tadayasu over a ferry boat with the students of Yui Masayuki but was amicably resolved through Masayuki's intervention.
Cast
- Kōkichi Takada as 櫟大介
- Eitarō Ozawa as 丸橋忠弥
- Kōji Mitsui as 和尚廓念
- Ichirō Ryūzaki as 由井正雪
- Yumeji Tsukioka as 忠弥の妻さと
- Michiko Saga as 梢
- Kyoko Kami as お甲
- Chinami Katsuura as 荻野沢之亟
- Norikazu Takeda as 春日屋弥兵衛
- Mitsugu Terashima as 紀伊屋五左衛門