Samurai Vengeance

Overview

In January 1810 in Edo, Kikunosuke, the 17-year-old-son of a murdered samurai, takes revenge on his father's murderer, Sakubai, who was his father's former retainer. Kikunosuke gloriously defeats the swaggering Sakubai in single combat in front of a theater, witnessed by a huge audience that had just finished watching a production of 47 Ronin. With Sakubai's severed head, Kikunosuke has achieved his revenge and ensured that his family won't be exiled. 18 months later, a ronin named Soichiro Kase from Kikunosuke's domain arrives at the theater. While he seems silly and smooth-talking, he's very keen on finding out more about the incident and Kikunosuke's time working at the theater. The theater's staff – the barker Ippachi, the swordsmanship teacher Sagara, the costumer Hotaru, the craftsman Kyuzo, and the playwright Kinji – are apprehensive and suspicious at his digging. However, not everything is as it seems.

Cast

Tasuku Emoto

Soichiro Kase

Ken Watanabe

Kinji Shinoda

Kento Nagao

Kazuki Kitamura

Koji Seto

Kenichi Takitoh

Makiya Yamaguchi

Manaki Reika

Ayako Imoto

Shuhei Nomura

Kazuya Takahashi

Bokuzo Masana