

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

Machiko Kyō

Mitsuko Mito

Kinuyo Tanaka

Masayuki Mori

Eitarō Ozawa

Sugisaku Aoyama

Mitsusaburō Ramon

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Kichijirō Ueda

Shōzō Nanbu

Kikue Mōri

Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka

Ichirō Amano

Eigorō Onoe

Saburo Date

Fumihiko Yokoyama

Ichisaburo Sawamura

Koji Murata

Yukio Horikita

Akira Shimizu

Shuntaro Tamamura

Shirō Osaki

Toshio Chiba

Hachiro Okuni

Shiro Miura

Hajime Koshikawa

Tetsu Mikami

Jun Fujikawa

Takaji Fukui

Eiji Ishikura

Tokurin Takeda

Koji Kanda

Masayoshi Kikuno

Michio Yuri

Sô Funagami

Shigeru Hasegawa

Teruko Ōmi

Keiko Koyanagi

Masako Tomura

Tokiko Mita

Tokuko Ueda

Sachiko Soma

Reiko Kongō

Ikkei Tamaki