Film

Flowers on the Road

1961 · 1h 26m · Comedy

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.

Chiyonosuke Azuma

Sakurai Sanshiro

Satomi Oka

Okiku

Ryūji Shinagawa

Shunji Sakai

Yoshio Tabata

Kinichi Hanabusa

Ichirō Izawa

Yoshio Yoshida

Kusuo Abe

Hiroshi Mizuno

Eijirō Sekine

Koinosuke Onoe

Yujiro Omi

Ikuo Oka

Yachiyo Kirishima

Tokinosuke Nakamura

• Eiichi KudōDirector
• Shinji KessokuScreenplay
• Sadaji YoshidaDirector of Photography
• Masao YoneyamaOriginal Music Composer
• Shintarō MiyamotoEditor

Release date

January 21, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Comedy