Overview
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Tsuruchiyo Niiro
- Keiju Kobayashi as Einosuke Kurihara
- Yūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu Hoshino
- Michiyo Aratama as Okiku / Princess Kiku
- Eijirō Tōno as Masagorō Kisoya
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigorō Hayama
- Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada
- Kaoru Yachigusa as Mitsu
- Haruko Sugimura as Tsuru
- Nami Tamura as Yae