In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku was one of them. He discreetly handed a departure note to his fiancée, Otosei, the daughter of Matsudaira Soebe, and left Edo. Otosei's cousin and Koroiku's friend, Domae Daikichi, was once a brave warrior of the shogunate army. However, he had since fallen into a life of debauchery in Yanagibashi and was rumored to be involved with a geisha named Orikki.
Noboru Nakamura
Director
Ichikawa Danjūrō XI
本田小六

Shōroku Onoe II
堂前大吉

Chikage Awashima
芸者おりき

Michiko Saga
お登勢

Mitsuko Kusabue
お蝶
Ichikawa Sadanji III
松平掃部

Shizue Natsukawa
妻むら

Onoe Baiko VII
醍醐光長
七代目坂東彥三郎
中島恒次郎