The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Raizō Ichikawa
Kinuyo Tanaka
Miwa Takada
Kyū Sazanka
Kichijirō Ueda
Fujio Suga
San'emon Arashi
Taizō Fukami
Chieko Naniwa
Chitose Maki
Ikuko Mōri
Keiko Nishioka
Akiko Inoue
Nobuko Tanei
Teruko Omi
Kōichi Mizuhara
Yūsaku Terashima
Saburo Date
Seishirō Hara
Tokio Oki
Ichirō Amano
Okuyama Asao
Sumao Ishihara
Tadashi Iwata
Gen Kimura
Masayoshi Kikuno
Hajime Koshikawa
Jun Ōsugi
Bonta Maru
Ganjirō Nakamura II