After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Maki, Shuzo's wife
Ineko Arima
Fuji
Satomi Oka
Lady Hagi
Kyôko Kishida
Yasu, Sajiemon's wife
Misako Watanabe
Kyoko Hitomi
Yoshiko Mita
Takahiro Hori
Yoshi Katō
Saburobei Konoe
Kei Satō
Gohei
Masao Oda
Gonnosuke Shizuta
Eijirō Yanagi
Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori
Shinjirō Ehara
Hirotaro Iguchi
Isao Kimura
Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
Eijirō Tōno
Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori
Masayuki Mori
Takeshi Katō
Kusuo Abe
Harue Akagi
Sato, Shuzo's daughter
Kikko Matsuoka
Chief retainer
Ushio Akashi
Vassal
Yoshirō Aoki
Shigeno, Kyutaro's mother
Michiko Araki
Hori Tamba's wife
Emiko Azuma
Akira Hanagami
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Minken Karasawa
Shimoda
Nobuo Kawai
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Old Woman
Tsukie Matsuura
Okitomo Tamuna
Masahiko Naruse
Kamikaze pilot
Yukio Ninagawa
Yamaoka
Kō Nishimura
Executive Kihara
Toranosuke Ogawa
Kamikaze pilot
Yūzaburō Sakaguchi
Shichisaburo
Seishiro Sawamura
Jyujiro
Miki Shimamura
Kinjirô Tooyama
Shunya Wazaki
Kazuma Noda
Kei Yamamoto
Hatsuko
Midori Yamamoto
Kitazawa
Ryuji Kita