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.
Cast
- Eiji Wakasugi as 弁長
- Yatarō Kitagami as 安森吉三郎
- Senjaku Nakamura as 木屋吉三
- Tamao Nakamura as 木屋吉三（少年時代）
- Yuriko Kusama as お島
- Kuniko Igawa as 弥生
- Michiko Saga as おとせ
- Mitsuru Chiaki as おゆき
- Tomie Kawakami as およね
- Chieko Naniwa as 小紫の局