Movielogr
Flowers on the Road (1961)
Directed by Eiichi Kudo
Overview
Yae and Kiku, daughters of drapers in Edo, must travel to Kyoto in place of their sickly fathers to attend to some businesses affairs. On their way to Kyoto, the two ladies are ambushed by a group of bandits. However a good Samaritan named Santaro comes to their rescue. Santaro is aiding a young samurai named Sanshiro who is on an official mission to deliver a message to a noble in Kyoto. When Yae and Kiku discover that a gang of assassins is after Sanshiro, they decide to help Sanshiro to complete his mission.
Length 86 minutes
Actors
Chiyonosuke Azuma | Satomi Oka | Ryûji Shinagawa | Shunji Sakai | Yoshio Tabata | Kinichi Hanabusa | Ichirô Izawa | Yoshio Yoshida | Kusuo Abe | Hiroshi Mizuno | Eijirô Sekine | Koinosuke Onoe | Yujiro Omi | Ikuo Oka | Yachiyo Kirishima | Tokinosuke Nakamura | Juro Hoshi | Harue Akagi | Yoshiko Fujishiro | Narumi Kayashima | Ichiro Fukui | Kazuo Tokita | Kin'ya Suzuki | Fujiya Ishimaru | Hiroshi Hatano | Hibari Misora