As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
as Jiromaru
as Samanosuke Sasaki
as Jubei
as Yuki-hime
as Chacha
as Danjô Matsunaga
as Gemba Akahana
as Gorôdayû
as Oniyasha
as Shôgen Unno
as Saburôjirô Kôno
as Saemontarô
as Satsuki
as Senkurô Kurata
as Haruki Abe
