A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
Keizaburo
Raizō Ichikawa
Ichinosuke
Shintarō Katsu
Onatsu
Kyōko Kagawa
Chieko Naniwa
Gonzaemon Hoshino
Eijirō Tōno
Takino
Michiko Ono
Aya
Tamao Nakamura
Yoshitaro
Naritoshi Hayashi
Aiko Mimasu
Isao Yamagata
Shinya
Hisao Toake
Tennojiya
Ichirō Amano
Genroku
Hinode Nishikawa
Hostess
Sumao Ishihara
Shirō Miura
Kadomatsu, seller
Jun Fujikawa
Shokichi, samurai's servant
Saburo Date
Otake
Mineko Yorozuyo
Kyū Sazanka
Shinobu Araki
Hisako Takihana
Shōzō Nanbu
Ikkei Tamaki
Kanae Kobayashi
Nihei
Ganjirō Nakamura II