Overview
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.
Cast
- Rentaro Mikuni as Shinpei
- Mariko Okada as Kumi
- Keiji Sada as Yajuro
- Takahiro Tamura as Yokouchi
- Hiroyuki Nagato as Kojuro
- Kiyoshi Atsumi as Ichibei
- Kō Nishimura as Heiroku
- Junzaburō Ban as Chojiro
- Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Kisuke
- Masahiko Tsugawa as Senta