
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