A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
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Hiroyuki Sanada as Tonbo
Shima Iwashita as Okan
Frankie Sakai as Tsutaya
Tsurutaro Kataoka as Ikugorō
Shirō Sano as Utamaro
Riona Hazuki as Hanasato
Toshiya Nagasawa as Tetsuzō
Haruko Katō as Ofuji
Taiko Shinbashi as Osato
Masumi Miyazaki as Gohi
Chōichirō Kawarasaki as Santō Kyōden
Takashi Tsumura as Manager Yohei
Naomasa Musaka as Tsuruya Namboku IV
Naoto Takenaka as Ōta Nanpo
Bandō Mitsugorō X as Matsudaira Sadanobu
Tomijuro Nakamura V as Ichikawa Danjūrō V
Ichikawa Danzō IX as Ichikawa Omezō I
Nakamura Shibajaku VII as Iwai Hanshirō IV
Eisuke Sasai as Tomisaburo Segawa
Hiroshi Arikawa as Tsuruya Kiemon
Hiroki Ôkawa as Sakichi
Chiba Tetsuya as
Kumiko Tsuchiya as
Shihori Nagasaka as
Kimiko Yo as
Ichirō Ogura as
Katsuhiko Hibino as
Naoji Iwata as
Jun Hamamura as
Bun Nakamura as
Masayuki Shida as
Kansuke Shimizu as
Satoko Yamamura as
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