In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
萬屋錦之介
as Miyamoto Musashi (Takezo)
風見章子
as Ogin
入江若葉
as Otsu
木村功
as Hon'iden Matahachi
浪花千栄子
as Osugi
阿部九洲男
as Fuchikawa Goroku
三国連太郎
as Muneaki Takuan
Tokubei Hanazawa
as Tanzaemon Aoki
八代目 坂東三津五郎
as Terumasa Ikeda
Michiyo Kogure
as Oko
丘さとみ
as Akemi
加賀邦男
as Tsuji Kaze Ten Ma
