An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…
Length 104 minutes
Kinnosuke Nakamura | Takahiro Tamura | Tetsurō Tamba | Yoshiko Mita | Ai Sasaki | Eitarô Shindô | Shoichi Ozawa | Ken Mitsuda | Kinzô Shin | Haruo Tanaka | Yoshi Katô | Masao Mishima | Shigeru Kôyama | Kikue Môri | Toshie Kimura | Tetsuo Ishidate | Junkichi Orimoto | Rinichi Yamamoto | Kinji Nakamura | Mitsuru Takeuchi | Tokinosuke Nakamura | Shinnosuke Ogata | Koji Arima | Kinjirô Tooyama | Hanzo Kataoka | Tetsuo Tomikawa | Jun Kanbayashi | Fujio Tokita | Kenji Egi | Hachirô Minamoto | Daisuke Awaji | Reiichi Hatanaka | Yoshiaki Nishida | Shôta Ooida | Kôtarô Hori | Kensaku Haruji | Mie Hayashi