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.
Hiroyuki Sanada
Shima Iwashita
Frankie Sakai
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Shirō Sano
Riona Hazuki
Toshiya Nagasawa
Haruko Katō
Taiko Shinbashi
Masumi Miyazaki
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Takashi Tsumura
Naomasa Musaka
Naoto Takenaka
Bandō Mitsugorō X
Tomijuro Nakamura V
Ichikawa Danzō IX
Nakamura Shibajaku VII
Eisuke Sasai
Hiroshi Arikawa
Hiroki Ôkawa
Chiba Tetsuya
Kumiko Tsuchiya
Shihori Nagasaka
Kimiko Yo
Ichirō Ogura
Katsuhiko Hibino
Naoji Iwata
Jun Hamamura
Bun Nakamura
Masayuki Shida
Kansuke Shimizu
Satoko Yamamura