Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

Raizō Ichikawa
as Goichi Mizoguchi

Tatsuya Nakadai
as Tokari

Michiyo Aratama
as Mistress of the floral art

Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Tayama Dosen

Yōko Uraji
as

Tamao Nakamura
as Woman at Gobancho

Yoichi Funaki
as Tsurukawa

Tanie Kitabayashi
as Aki, Goichi's mother

Kinzō Shin
as

Ryōsuke Kagawa
as Priest Zenkai