Top Cast
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Nobuko Otowa
Jiju
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Kyôko Kishida
Kaoyo
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Eitarō Ozawa
Moronao
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Isao Kimura
Inspector Enya
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Jūkichi Uno
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Kōji Takahashi
Yakushiji Jirozaemon
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Taiji Tonoyama
Yamashiro-no-Kami Munemura
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Masaru Miyata
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Kentarô Kaji
Overview
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
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