Flowers on the Road (1961)
Yae and Kiku, daughters of drapers in Edo, must travel to Kyoto in place of their sickly fathers to attend to some businesses affairs. On their way to Kyoto, the two ladies are ambushed by a group of bandits. However a good Samaritan named Santaro comes to their rescue. Santaro is aiding a young samurai named Sanshiro who is on an official mission to deliver a message to a noble in Kyoto. When Yae and Kiku discover that a gang of assassins is after Sanshiro, they decide to help Sanshiro to complete his mission.
Director:
Eiichi Kudō
Writer:
Shinji Kessoku
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Chiyonosuke Azuma as Sakurai Sanshiro |
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Satomi Oka as Okiku |
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Ryūji Shinagawa as |
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Shunji Sakai as |
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Yoshio Tabata as |
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Kinichi Hanabusa as |
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Ichirō Izawa as |
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Yoshio Yoshida as |
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Kusuo Abe as |
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Hiroshi Mizuno as |
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Eijirō Sekine as |
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Koinosuke Onoe as |
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Yujiro Omi as |
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Ikuo Oka as |
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Yachiyo Kirishima as |
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Tokinosuke Nakamura as |
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Juro Hoshi as |
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Harue Akagi as |
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Yoshiko Fujishiro as |
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Narumi Kayashima as |
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Ichiro Fukui as |
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Kazuo Tokita as |
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Kinya Suzuki as |
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Katsuya Ishimaru as |
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Hiroshi Hatano as |
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Hibari Misora as Oyae |
| Camera | Sadaji Yoshida | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Eiichi Kudō | Director |
| Lighting | Koichi Yasuda | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Ryuji Tsukamoto | Art Direction |
| Editing | Shintarō Miyamoto | Editor |
| Writing | Shinji Kessoku | Screenplay |
| Sound | Toshirō Sasaki | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Masao Yoneyama | Original Music Composer |