"A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord."
Koji Yakusho
as Kageyu
Ichikawa Ebizo XI
as Hanshirô Tsugumo
Eita Nagayama
as Motome
Hikari Mitsushima
as Miho
Naoto Takenaka
as Tajiri
Kazuki Namioka
as Umanosuke Kawabe
Hirofumi Arai
as Hayatonosho Matsuzaki
Munetaka Aoki
as Hikokuro Omodaka
Takashi Sasano
as Sousuke priest
Gorō Daimon
as Priest
Ayumu Saito
as Fujita
Takehiro Hira
as Naotaka Ii
Baijaku Nakamura
as Jinnai Chijiiwa
Ippei Takahashi
as Naito
Yoshihisa Amano
as Sasaki
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Producer
Takashi Miike
Director
Yasuhiko Takiguchi
Novel
Ryosuke Kanesaki
Assistant Director
Shin'ya Zenda
Production Manager
Natsuki Kioka
Assistant Production Design
Yasuto Takemura
Art Department Coordinator
Hiroaki Kanachi
Sound
Jun Nakamura
Sound Recordist
Kenji Shibasaki
Sound Effects
Sound Designer
Tsugutaka Fukuoka
Visual Effects
Tomonori Horio
Compositing Artist
Toshiyuki Kimura
Matte Painter
Yoshimi Kosugi
Kaori Ohtagaki
CGI Director
Yuichi Yamamoto
Keiji Tsujii
Stunt Coordinator
Yoshimi Watabe
Gaffer
Kikumi Yamagishi
Screenplay
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Original Music Composer
Nobuyasu Kita
Director of Photography
Yuji Hayashida
Art Direction
Kazuko Kurosawa
Costume Design
Kensuke Zushi
Jeremy Thomas
Toshiaki Nakazawa
Toru Hatori
Executive Producer
Sigeshi Maeda
Co-Producer
Misako Saka
Nobuyuki Tanizawa
Kenji Yamashita
Editor
Tetsu Fujimura
Associate Producer
Tatsuro Hatanaka
Yo Hattori
Tomoyuki Imai
Line Producer
Yoshio Irie
Hiroaki Kitano
Toshiki Komatsu
Tomoko Machida
Suketsugu Noda
Eiichi Noguchi
Toshiaki Okuno
Shingo Sekine
Tōichirō Shiraishi
Yasushi Uchida
Shinjiro Yokoyama
Yuriko Kitada
Casting
Kazuto Kagoo
Set Decoration
Akira Sakamoto