

01/11/1959
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.

Toshirō Mifune
as Prince Yamato Takeru

Takashi Shimura
as Elder Kumaso

Setsuko Hara
as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess

Kinuyo Tanaka
as Princess Yamato

Yōko Tsukasa
as Princess Oto Tachibana

Kyōko Kagawa
as Princess Miyazu

Kumi Mizuno
as Azami

Misa Uehara
as Princess Kushinada

Akira Kubo
as Prince Iogi

Akira Takarada
as Prince Wakatarashi

Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Emperor Keikō

Eijirō Tōno
as Ootomo

Jun Tazaki
as Ootomo's Kurohiko

Kenichi Enomoto
as God of Yaoyorozu

Hideyo Amamoto
as Spectator at Gods' Dance

Akihiko Hirata
as Kibino Takehiko

Kichijirō Ueda
as Kume's yahara

Akira Sera
as Anazuchi

Minosuke Yamada
as Okuri of Kunizo

Yoshibumi Tajima
as

Michiyo Tamaki
as Ehime

Akira Tani
as

Haruko Sugimura
as Narrator

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
as

Katsumi Tezuka
as

Chieko Nakakita
as Tenazuchi

Nobuko Otowa
as Goddess of Anenouzume

Ikio Sawamura
as Gods of Yaoyorozu

Shōichi Hirose
as

Hajime Izu
as Prince Oousu

Bokuzen Hidari
as God Amenominaka

Yū Fujiki
as Okabi

Ichirō Arishima
as Okabi

Jun'ichirō Mukai
as Moroto

Yutaka Sada
as

Toshiko Higuchi
as

Yoshiko Ieda
as

Masayoshi Nagashima
as
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