
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