This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them.
萬屋錦之介
as Baian Fujieda
小川眞由美
as Osono
真行寺君枝
as Osaki
宮下順子
as Omon
中村嘉葎雄
as Hikojiro
伊丹十三
as Sahei Oumiya
藤田進
as Hanuemon Otowaya
五代高之
as Jugoro Kosugi
岩尾正隆
as Genpachiro Isaka
御木本伸介
as Mondo Tsuchiya
中尾彬
as Mondonosuke
志麻いづみ
as Oyumi
