Top Cast
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Daisuke Katō
Ushinosuke Akaba
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Chikage Awashima
Omaki
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Seizaburō Kawazu
Kitani
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Eijirō Yanagi
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Setsuko Hara
Kanako Mori
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Keiju Kobayashi
Policeman
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Tatsuya Nakadai
Shin Don
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Sadako Sawamura
Tane, Ushinosuke's Mother
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Hiroshi Tachikawa
Chôjûrô
Overview
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Rating
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