

14/03/1964
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

Raizō Ichikawa
as Jiro Kokubun

Yukiko Fuji
as Eri Itami

Yūsuke Kawazu
as Kagawa

Akio Hasegawa
as Mibu

Akitake Kōno
as Kiuchi

Yuka Konno
as Shigeko Fujishiro

Junko Kozakura
as Sanae Mibu

Rieko Sumi
as Hiroko Kokubun

Yoshio Inaba
as Seiichiro Kokubun

Yotaro Yajima
as

Kuniichi Takami
as Tada

Keijiro Kazama
as

Gen Kimura
as

Yoichi Funaki
as

Machiko Horikawa
as

Kimiko Tachibana
as

Nobuko Shingu
as

Kōichi Mizuhara
as

Hisaya Morishige
as Mibu

Noriko Sengoku
as Kiuchi

Keiju Kobayashi
as Eri Itami
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