On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun's mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun's family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.
Taizō Fuyushima
Director
Eiji Wakasugi
弁長
Yatarō Kitagami
安森吉三郎

Senjaku Nakamura
木屋吉三

Tamao Nakamura
木屋吉三(少年時代)
Yuriko Kusama
お島

Kuniko Igawa
弥生

Michiko Saga
おとせ
Mitsuru Chiaki
おゆき
Tomie Kawakami
およね