Passion Fire
The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu Uzen fled to Edo. Local officials like Yoshida Bunsuke and Yoshizumi Hironoshin showed their allegiance by welcoming them. The commander at the time, Umemura Hayami, was a former member of the Tengu Party and had previously been pursued in the town. He took refuge in a restaurant named Kabuya, and owing to a tip-off from a woman named Oraku, he was almost captured for her lover, Yoshizumi. Oraku and Yoshizumi probably feared revenge from that previous encounter, but Umemura had come back to Hida because he couldn't forget Oraku.
Cast
Masao Wakahara
as 梅村速水
Michiyo Kogure
as 合羽屋おらく
Hizuru Takachiho
as つる
Sō Yamamura
as 奥田金馬太郎
Minoru Ōki
as 郷土弥平
Daijirō Natsukawa
as 吉住弘之進
Eijirō Yanagi
as 吉田文助
Hisano Yamato
as 文助の妻
Hiroshi Aoyama
as 押上屋
Kodayu Ichikawa
as 新見内膳