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A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Directed by
Masahiro Shinoda
Hiroyuki Sanada
Tonbo
Shima Iwashita
Okan
Kimiko Yo
Naoto Takenaka
Ōta Nanpo
Masumi Miyazaki
Gohi
Shiro Sano
Utamaro
Naomasa Musaka
Tsuruya Namboku IV
Jun Hamamura
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Ikugorō
Haruko Katō
Ofuji
Frankie Sakai
Tsutaya
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Santō Kyōden
Ichirō Ogura
Riona Hazuki
Hanasato
Kumiko Tsuchiya
Tetsuya Chiba
Eisuke Sasai
Tomisaburo Segawa
Hiroshi Arikawa
Tsuruya Kiemon
Toshiya Nagasawa
Tetsuzō
Masayuki Shida
Bandō Mitsugorō X
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Takashi Tsumura
Manager Yohei
Shihori Nagasaka
Taiko Shinbashi
Osato
Tomijuro Nakamura V
Ichikawa Danjūrō V
Ichikawa Danzō IX
Ichikawa Omezō I
Nakamura Shibajaku VII
Iwai Hanshirō IV
Hiroki Ôkawa
Sakichi
Naoji Iwata
Bun Nakamura
Kansuke Shimizu
Satoko Yamamura

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