Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A scuffle initiated by Tadayasu over a ferry boat with the students of Yui Masayuki but was amicably resolved through Masayuki's intervention.
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as 丸橋忠弥
as 和尚廓念
as 由井正雪
as 忠弥の妻さと
as 梢
as お甲
as 荻野沢之亟
as 春日屋弥兵衛
as 紀伊屋五左衛門
as 松平伊豆守
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as 多間佐左衛門
as 石谷十蔵
as 金井半兵衛
as 熊谷三郎兵衛
as 武下舎人
as 春日屋女房お直
as 老人侍(劇中劇)
as 小姓(劇中劇)
as 弓師藤四郎
as お菊