94 minutos
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.
Kazuko Inano
Oiwa
Kei Satō
Iyemon
Yoshihiko Aoyama
Yomoshichi, a Samurai
Akiji Kobayashi
Naosuke
Kyoko Mikage
Sonosuke Sawamura
Jun Hamamura
Yasuhiro Minakami
Gen Kimura
Tatsuo Hanabu
Saburo Date
Ikuko Mōri
Yūsaku Terashima
Shōzō Nanbu
Tokio Oki
Chikako Masago
Kimiko Tachibana
Teruko Omi
Shintarō Nanjō
Hajime Koshikawa
Sumao Ishihara
Sōji Shibata
Tadashi Iwata
Takeshi Yabuuchi
松田剛武
Yoshitaka Ito
三藤頼枝
