In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Machiko Kyō
Mitsuko Mito
Kinuyo Tanaka
Masayuki Mori
Eitarō Ozawa
Sugisaku Aoyama
Mitsusaburō Ramon
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Kichijirō Ueda
Shōzō Nanbu
Kikue Mōri
Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka
Ichirō Amano
Eigorō Onoe
Saburo Date
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Ichisaburo Sawamura
Koji Murata
Yukio Horikita
Akira Shimizu
Shuntaro Tamamura
Shirō Osaki
Toshio Chiba
Hachiro Okuni
Shirō Miura
Hajime Koshikawa
Tetsu Mikami
Jun Fujikawa
Takaji Fukui
Eiji Ishikura
Tokurin Takeda
Koji Kanda
Masayoshi Kikuno
Michio Yuri
Sô Funagami
Shigeru Hasegawa
Teruko Omi
Keiko Koyanagi
Masako Tomura
Tokiko Mita
Tokuko Ueda
Sachiko Soma
Reiko Kongō
Ikkei Tamaki