In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
Toshirō Mifune
Tetsu
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Jakoman
Yuriko Hamada
Yuki
Izumi Hara
Taka (as Senko Hara)
Yoshiko Kuga
Girl at church
Yuriko Hanabusa
Acting
Kamatari Fujiwara
Soutaro
Keiichi Shimada
Genji
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Eitarō Shindō
Kyubei
Mitsuo Matsumoto
Daigaku
Yoshio Kosugi
Farming
Blood and Bones
The Young One
Shara
The Eel
Starving in Suburbia
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
I'm Not Here
The Ballad of Narayama
Little Boy Blue