The Lowly Ronin: Hanayama Daikichi
1995
95 minutes
Overview
Low-caste former samurai Hanayama Daikichi and his gambler friend Hanji of Yaizu, come to a once peaceful post town of Kofu. A town now filled with gamblers, prostitutes, and unscrupulous opportunists, all drawn by the smell of blood and the scent of newly-mined gold. Daikichi brings a little girl whose father has been butchered by yakuza assassins, hoping to find her family. Intrigue and violence follow the group as they must ward off a deadly female spy and a mysterious ronin with a violent past. Tension mounts as all these forces come together to unravel a secret which will unleash a wave of violence that could destroy them all.
Top Cast
Hiroki Matsukata
Hiroyuki Watanabe
Natsuki Okamoto
Toshihiko Tahara
Kazue Itō
Tokuma Nishioka
Mayumi Yoshino
Akira Hamada
Seiichirō Kameishi
Takashi Noguchi
Masataka Iwao
Takeshi Iba
Tadao Kawamoto
須賀章
Yûya Takayama
Yoshihiro Igarashi
Junichi Hosokawa
Atsuko Sano
Eiichi Kikuchi
Riko Murakami
Ren Urano
Yasuko Takahashi
Eiichi Takagi
大久保幸治
木村康志
Chikara Motoyama
太田敦子
Akio Kobune
Ryōta Minowada
Rantaro Mine
Yuki Fujisaka
Satoshi Kato