In feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world is strictly prohibited, an idealist appears at an isolated inn, headquarters of smugglers with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one forced to work in a brothel.

Tatsuya Nakadai
as Sadashichi

Komaki Kurihara
as Omitsu

Wakako Sakai
as Okiwa

Shigeru Kōyama
as Officer Kanedo

Kei Satō
as Yohei

Ichirō Nakatani
as Officer Okajima (uncredited)

Yōsuke Kondō
as Masaji

Shin Kishida
as Genzô

Hatsuo Yamaya
as Bunta

Masao Mishima
as Funayado Tokubei