Plot
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.
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Cast
Junichi Okada
Aoki Sozaemon
Rie Miyazawa
Osae
Arata Furuta
Sadashiro
Teruyuki Kagawa
Hirano Jirozaemon
Tomoko Tabata
Onobu
Ryûhei Ueshima
Otokichi
Yuichi Kimura
Magosaburo
Ryo Kase
Sodekichi
Seiji Chihara
Tomekichi
Sei Hiraizumi
Zenzo
Moeko Ezawa
Okatsu
Yui Natsukawa
Oryo
Jun Kunimura
Isekan
Katsuo Nakamura
Shigehachi
Renji Ishibashi
Shozaburo Aoki
Susumu Terajima
Kichiemon Terasaka
Ken'ichi Endô
Juhachiro Suzuta
Shohei Tanaka
Shinnosuke
Yuji Nakamura
Ryo Katsuji
Soemon Aoki
Natsuo Ishido
Okinu
Masa Tommies
Yoriki
Eiji Minakata
Shojiro Aoki
Tadanobu Asano
Jubei Kanazawa
Yoshio Harada
Junai Onodera
Ohga Tanaka
Yoshibo
Hiei Kimura
Kenbo
Midori Hiro
Ume
Natsumi Iuchi
Yuki
Shu Toro
Substitute Bookkeeper
Tetsushi Tanaka
Kanpei Yokogawa