Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Ichirō Sugai, Bontarō Miake, Yōko Kozono, Chieko Naniwa, Kikue Mōri, Ken Mitsuda, Masao Shimizu, Ryōsuke Kagawa, Akitake Kōno, Kanji Koshiba, Shinobu Araki
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
When a benign provincial governor tries to intervene to protect his people from the brutality of the military, he is stripped of his rank and banished. His wife and children are forced to follow him, on foot, some time later and hopelessly ill-equipped for that task they fall prey to people traffickers who split the family up. The young daughter and son soon find themselves bought by the eponymous...