1961-05-27
110 mins
The Plot
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
Cast and Crew
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Miyamoto Musashi (Takezo)
Akiko Kazami
Ogin
Wakaba Irie
Otsu
Isao Kimura
Hon'iden Matahachi
Chieko Naniwa
Osugi
Kusuo Abe
Fuchikawa Goroku
Rentaro Mikuni
Muneaki Takuan
Tokubei Hanazawa
Tanzaemon Aoki
Bandō Mitsugorō VIII
Terumasa Ikeda
Michiyo Kogure
Oko
Satomi Oka
Akemi
Kunio Kaga
Tsuji Kaze Ten Ma
Seiji Miyaguchi
Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
Harue Akagi
Kisuke's wife
Shojiro Ogasawara
Shichiho temple monk
Shirō Osaki
Hon'iden's relative
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Village man
Koji Arima
Village man
Noboru Umezawa
Village man
Hanzō Kataoka
Village man
Mitsuo Asano
Yamabushi
Shinichi Hamada
Villager
Kensaku Haruji
Villager
Hiroshi Hatano
Mitsukazu Kawamura
Border Inspector
Takeshi Kurobe
A ghost
Hachirō Minamoto
Villager
Ryuichi Nagashima
Kinji Nakamura
Villager
Katsuyoshi Noma
Tsuyako Okajima
Akira Shioji
A Ghost
Kin'ya Suzuki
Border Inspector
Kinjirô Tooyama
Yujiro Omi
Kazuko Ōura
Villager
Yukio Miyagi
A Ghost