Flowers on the Road

Yae and Kiku, daughters of drapers in Edo, must travel to Kyoto in place of their sickly fathers to attend to some businesses affairs. On their way to Kyoto, the two ladies are ambushed by a group of bandits. However a good Samaritan named Santaro comes to their rescue. Santaro is aiding a young samurai named Sanshiro who is on an official mission to deliver a message to a noble in Kyoto. When Yae and Kiku discover that a gang of assassins is after Sanshiro, they decide to help Sanshiro to complete his mission.

Cast

Chiyonosuke Azuma

Sakurai Sanshiro

Satomi Oka

Okiku

Ryūji Shinagawa

Shunji Sakai

Yoshio Tabata

Kinichi Hanabusa

Ichirō Izawa

Yoshio Yoshida

Kusuo Abe

Hiroshi Mizuno