"A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo."
Raizō Ichikawa
as Keizaburo
Shintarō Katsu
as Ichinosuke
Kyōko Kagawa
as Onatsu
Chieko Naniwa
as
Eijirō Tōno
as Gonzaemon Hoshino
Michiko Ono
as Takino
Tamao Nakamura
as Aya
Naritoshi Hayashi
as Yoshitaro
Aiko Mimasu
Isao Yamagata
Hisao Toake
as Shinya
Ichirō Amano
as Tennojiya
Hinode Nishikawa
as Genroku
Sumao Ishihara
as Hostess
Shirō Miura
Jun Fujikawa
as Kadomatsu, seller
Saburo Date
as Shokichi, samurai's servant
Mineko Yorozuyo
as Otake
Kyū Sazanka
Shinobu Araki
Hisako Takihana
Shōzō Nanbu
Ikkei Tamaki
Kanae Kobayashi
Ganjirō Nakamura II
as Nihei
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Director
Shigeo Nishida
Editor
Kenji Mizoguchi
Story
Yoshikata Yoda
Screenplay
Hiroshi Mizutani
Production Design
Akira Naitō
Set Decoration
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
Kōhei Sugiyama
Director of Photography
Ken'ichi Okamoto
Lighting Technician
Yukio Kaihara
Sound Recordist
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer