A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
                                    Hiroyuki Sanada
Tonbo
                                    Shima Iwashita
Okan
                                    Frankie Sakai
Tsutaya
                                    Tsurutaro Kataoka
Ikugorō
                                    Shirō Sano
Utamaro
                                    Riona Hazuki
Hanasato
                                    Toshiya Nagasawa
Tetsuzō
                                    Haruko Katō
Ofuji
                                    Masumi Miyazaki
Gohi
                                    Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Santō Kyōden
                                    Takashi Tsumura
Manager Yohei
                                    Naomasa Musaka
Tsuruya Namboku IV
                                    Naoto Takenaka
Ōta Nanpo
                                    Bandō Mitsugorō X
Matsudaira Sadanobu
                                    Eisuke Sasai
Tomisaburo Segawa
                                    Hiroshi Arikawa
Tsuruya Kiemon
                                    Tetsuya Chiba
                                    Kumiko Tsuchiya
                                    Shihori Nagasaka
                                    Kimiko Yo
                                    Ichirō Ogura
                                    Jun Hamamura