Flowers on the Road

The story

Yae and Kiku, daughters of drapers in Edo, must travel to Kyoto in place of their sickly fathers to attend to some businesses affairs. On their way to Kyoto, the two ladies are ambushed by a group of bandits. However a good Samaritan named Santaro comes to their rescue. Santaro is aiding a young samurai named Sanshiro who is on an official mission to deliver a message to a noble in Kyoto. When Yae and Kiku discover that a gang of assassins is after Sanshiro, they decide to help Sanshiro to complete his mission.

Cast & crew

Chiyonosuke AzumaSakurai Sanshiro

Satomi OkaOkiku

Ryūji ShinagawaCast

Shunji SakaiCast

Yoshio TabataCast

Kinichi Hanabusa

Kinichi HanabusaCast

Ichirō IzawaCast

Yoshio YoshidaCast

Kusuo AbeCast

Hiroshi Mizuno

Hiroshi MizunoCast

Eijirō Sekine

Eijirō SekineCast

Koinosuke OnoeCast