In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Raizō Ichikawa
Hizuru Takachiho
Masayo Banri
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Shigeru Amachi
Ryûzô Shimada
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Rieko Sumi
Nobuo Kaneko
Saburo Date
Manabu Morita
Shinjirō Asano
Yūji Hamada
Shintarō Nanjō
Shōzō Nanbu
Shinobu Araki
Eigorō Onoe
Kuniichi Takami
Kiyoshi Nakano
Jun Fuwa
Yukio Horikita
Jun Fujikawa
Akiko Inoue
Gen Kimura
Masayoshi Kikuno
Akira Shiga
Kazuo Ōbayashi
Kanji Uehara
Taizô Sengoku
Noboru Taniguchi
Takayuki Akutagawa
Hiroyuki Mori