Ghost Ship Part 1 (1957)
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
Director:
Sadatsugu Matsuda
Writer:
Katsuya Susaki
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Kinnosuke Nakamura as Jiromaru |
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Ryutaro Otomo as Samanosuke Sasaki |
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Denjirō Ōkōchi as Jubei |
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Yumiko Hasegawa as Yuki-hime |
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Eiko Maruyama as Chacha |
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Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Danjô Matsunaga |
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Isao Yamagata as Gemba Akahana |
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Eitarō Shindō as Gorôdayû |
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Masao Mishima as Oniyasha |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as Shôgen Unno |
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Kunio Kaga as Saburôjirô Kôno |
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Kensaku Hara as Saemontarô |
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Hiroko Sakuramachi as Satsuki |
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Jotaro Togami as Senkurô Kurata |
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Juro Hoshi as Haruki Abe |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tadaoto Kainoshō | Costume Design |
| Sound | Shiro Fukai | Music |
| Directing | Sadatsugu Matsuda | Director |
| Writing | Jiro Osaragi | Novel |
| Writing | Katsuya Susaki | Screenplay |
| Camera | Shintarō Kawasaki | Director of Photography |