Overview

As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…

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Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Ryutaro Otomo

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Yumiko Hasegawa

Eiko Maruyama

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Isao Yamagata

Eitarō Shindō

Masao Mishima

Ryōsuke Kagawa