Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Now a ronin, he learns of a scheme by his old clan to repeat the same crime. determined to stop them, he endures great hardships in an attempt to atone for his earlier mistakes.
Ben Hiura , Eijirô Tôno , Eitarô Ozawa , Fujio Tokita , Haruo Suzuki , Hiroshi Tanaka , Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi , Hisashi Igawa , Ikuko Tani , Isao Natsuyagi , Kô Nishimura , Kinnosuke Nakamura , Kiyoshi Yamamoto , Kunie Tanaka , Kyôichi Satô , Ruriko Asaoka , Shinnosuke Ogata , Susumu Kurobe , Tatsuya Nakadai , Tetsurô Tanba , Yôko Tsuk
