Sharaku

Crippled Kabuki player Tonbo is taken in by a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold art, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal.

Hiroyuki Sanada

Shima Iwashita

Frankie Sakai

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Shiro Sano

Riona Hazuki

Toshiya Nagasawa

Haruko Katō

Taiko Shinbashi

Masumi Miyazaki

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

(Santō Kyōden)

Takashi Tsumura

(Manager Yohei)

Naomasa Musaka

(Tsuruya Namboku IV)

Naoto Takenaka

Bandō Mitsugorō X

(Matsudaira Sadanobu)

Tomijuro Nakamura V

(Ichikawa Danjūrō V)

Ichikawa Danzō IX

(Ichikawa Omezō I)

Nakamura Shibajaku VII

(Iwai Hanshirō IV)

Eisuke Sasai

(Tomisaburo Segawa)

Hiroshi Arikawa

(Tsuruya Kiemon)

Hiroki Ôkawa

Tetsuya Chiba

Kumiko Tsuchiya

Shihori Nagasaka

Kimiko Yo

Ichirō Ogura

Katsuhiko Hibino

Naoji Iwata

Jun Hamamura

Bun Nakamura

Masayuki Shida

Kansuke Shimizu

Satoko Yamamura