As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn’t want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
Length 86 minutes
Kinnosuke Nakamura | Ryutaro Otomo | Denjirô Ôkôchi | Yumiko Hasegawa | Eiko Maruyama | Ryûnosuke Tsukigata | Isao Yamagata | Eitarô Shindô | Masao Mishima | Ryôsuke Kagawa | Kunio Kaga | Kensaku Hara | Hiroko Sakuramachi | Jotaro Togami | Juro Hoshi