荒木又右衛門

荒木又右衛門 (1955)

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō killed Kazuma's younger brother, Gentayū, and fled. Seeking assistance, Kazuma asked his brother-in-law, Araki Mataemon, for help, but Mataemon refused, saying that it was against the code for a brother to avenge another brother's death. On the other hand, the lord of the clan, Ikeda Tadao, ordered a search for Matagorō, who was found to be sheltered by the Hatamoto, including Andō Jiemon, in Edo. Tadao was furious but unable to act. Matagorō, in Edo, came to regret his birth as a samurai. He met and fell in love with Okō, a bathhouse maid. As the discord between the Hatamoto and the Ikeda clan deepened, Tadao died of illness. Seizing the opportunity to ease the conflict, the shogunate ordered the Ikeda clan to be succeeded by the young lord Katsugorō and to relocate to the Ikeda clan of Inshū Tottori. Meanwhile, Matagorō was exiled from Edo.

Director: Manao Horiuchi

Casts

	Matsumoto Hakuō I as 荒木又右衛門
	Isuzu Yamada as 妻みね
	Nakamura Jakuemon IV as 渡辺数馬
	Hiroko Nanaura as 許婚美乃
	Minoru Ōki as 河合又五郎
	Yukiko Shimazaki as 湯女おこう
	Eitarō Ozawa as 河合甚左衛門
	Hideaki Nagai as 池田宮内少輔忠雄
	Ryōsuke Kagawa as 荒尾但馬
	Kinzō Shin as 津田豊後
	Shinji Takano as 多田利七郎
	Matsumoto Hakuō II as 渡辺源太夫
	Akio Satake as 松平伊豆守
	Mitsugu Terashima as 酒井雅楽守
	Kenji Nagata as 土井大炊守
	Mitsuo Nagata as 山名内膳正
	Shinobu Araki as 河合半左衛門
	Keijirō Morozumi as 仲間和吉
	Akio Isono as 仲間春蔵
	Fujio Suga as 安藤治右衛門
	Jinichi Amano as 阿部四郎五郎
	Isao Ubukata as 久世三四郎
	Eijirō Hose as 近藤登之助
	松井光三郎 as 植村善次郎
	Yoshito Yamaji as 比企田頼三
	Jotaro Togami as 竹内丹下
	Kamon Kawamura as 磯部主水
	Hiroshi Aoyama as 孫右衛門
	Yuji Nango as 武右衛門
	Kenzō Tanaka as 桜井半兵衛
	Toshio Nogi as 草倉
	Koji Nakata as 可介
	Aizo Tamashima as 老僕
	Akira Nishioka as 飛脚
	Rintarō Fujima as 久松喜七郎
	Eiichi Nozawa as 作兵衛

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