Apostasy

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Cast

Ryō Ikebe

as Segawa

Yōko Katsuragi

as Oshiho

Osamu Takizawa

as Tatsutarô Inoko

Jūkichi Uno

as Ginnosuke Tsuchiya

Masao Shimizu

Yoshi Katō

Eitarō Ozawa

as Takayanagi

Eijirō Tōno

Kappei Matsumoto

Yasushi Nagata

as (as Kiyoshi Nagata)

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