As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Ryutaro Otomo
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Yumiko Hasegawa
Eiko Maruyama
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Isao Yamagata
Eitarō Shindō
Masao Mishima
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Kunio Kaga
Kensaku Hara
Hiroko Sakuramachi
Jotaro Togami
Juro Hoshi