After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu
Ineko Arima
Maki, Shuzo's wife
Satomi Oka
Fuji
Kyôko Kishida
Lady Hagi
Misako Watanabe
Yasu, Sajiemon's wife
Yoshiko Mita
Kyoko Hitomi
Yoshi Katō
Takahiro Hori
Kei Satō
Saburobei Konoe
Masao Oda
Gohei
Eijirō Yanagi
Gonnosuke Shizuta
Shinjirō Ehara
Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori
Isao Kimura
Hirotaro Iguchi
Eijirō Tōno
Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
Masayuki Mori
Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori
Takeshi Katō
Kusuo Abe
Harue Akagi
Kikko Matsuoka
Sato, Shuzo's daughter
Ushio Akashi
Chief retainer
Yoshirō Aoki
Vassal
Michiko Araki
Shigeno, Kyutaro's mother
Emiko Azuma
Hori Tamba's wife
Akira Hanaue
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Minken Karasawa
Nobuo Kawai
Shimoda
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Tsukie Matsuura
Old Woman
Masahiko Naruse
Okitomo Tamuna
Yukio Ninagawa
Kamikaze pilot
Kō Nishimura
Yamaoka
Toranosuke Ogawa
Executive Kihara
Yūzaburō Sakaguchi
Seishiro Sawamura
Shichisaburo
Miki Shimamura
Jyujiro
Kinjirô Tooyama
Shunya Wazaki
Kei Yamamoto
Kazuma Noda
Midori Yamamoto
Hatsuko
Ryuji Kita
Kitazawa
Tadashi Imai
Director
Naoyuki Suzuki
Writer
Yoshikata Yoda
Dec 12, 2025
Sep 7, 2004
Oct 14, 1999
Apr 8, 1983
Nov 2, 2002
Jan 1, 1928
Sep 22, 2016
May 3, 1966
May 27, 1967
Jul 23, 1982
Sep 15, 1962
Sep 25, 2010
Apr 23, 2021
Oct 15, 2011
Dec 18, 1999
Mar 17, 2009
Toei Company
JP
Japan
日本語
Japan
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