As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.

• Toei Company
• Chiezō Kataoka
• Yoshie Mizutani
• Kikuko Hojo
• Yumiko Mihara
• Kenji Susukida
• Ryūji Shinagawa
• Eijirō Yanagi
• Yūnosuke Itō