Overview
In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku was one of them. He discreetly handed a departure note to his fiancée, Otosei, the daughter of Matsudaira Soebe, and left Edo. Otosei's cousin and Koroiku's friend, Domae Daikichi, was once a brave warrior of the shogunate army. However, he had since fallen into a life of debauchery in Yanagibashi and was rumored to be involved with a geisha named Orikki.
Cast
- Ichikawa Danjūrō XI as 本田小六
- Shōroku Onoe II as 堂前大吉
- Chikage Awashima as 芸者おりき
- Michiko Saga as お登勢
- Mitsuko Kusabue as お蝶
- Ichikawa Sadanji III as 松平掃部
- Shizue Natsukawa as 妻むら
- Onoe Baiko VII as 醍醐光長
- 七代目坂東彥三郎 as 中島恒次郎
- Shigeru Onoe as 船頭新兵衛