Overview

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.

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Cast

Chiezo Kataoka

Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Michiyo Kogure

Otoku

Yumiko Hasegawa

Otoyo

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Shichibei

Kunio Kaga

Yonetomo

Kōtarō Satomi

Shintaro Mochizuki

Isao Yamagata

Kamio Shuzen

Eijirō Kataoka

Kinzo

Yumiko Hasegawa

Satomi Oka

Omatsu

Harumi Urazato

Okinu

Sadako Sawamura

Otsuno