In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
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Bunta Sugawara
Masayuki Abe
Namiji Namiura
Azami
Yōko Mihara
Mieko Suzuki
Yōichi Numata
Muneharu Yugebe
Den Kunikata
Goromaru
Kyôko Yashiro
Kanako Oikawa
Torahiko Nakamura
Chudayu Oikawa
Arata Shibata
Mogusa headman
Kyōji Kokonoe
Rei Ishikawa
Hamada, a detective
Jotaro Yuki
Shinji Suzuki
Fujikura
Katsuya Uda
Heisaku
Satoshi Komori
Genzo
Fujie Satsuki
Old woman
Sōten Kuni
Tatsuhiro Oka
Kōji Hirose
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Yoko Fujikawa
Keiko Minakami
Yuko Mandai
Oikawa's wife
Hiroki Nakanishi
Shin Matsukata
Masao Yamamoto
Hironao Takenaka
Masaya Otsu
Shunsuke Komatsu
Akira Kato
Hiroshi Tsukiji
Sakutarō Yamakawa
Narasaki, the patrolman (uncredited)
Ryo Kuromaru
五味晃
Hiroshi Nakaoka
Daijiro Kikukawa
Eisuke Sakauchi
Seiji Hara
Morihei Magatani
Director
Mitsugi Okura
Executive Producer
Tsunehira Okochi
Original Story
Susumu Takaku
Writer
Jiro Fujishima
Kagai Okado
Director of Photography
Kenji Murayama
Sound Recordist
Takeo Usuyama
Art Direction
Hanzaburo Kaneko
Editor
Teizō Matsumura
Original Music Composer
Sukune Hashida
Assistant Director
