In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Elenco: Machiko Kyō , Mitsuko Mito , Kinuyo Tanaka , Masayuki Mori , Eitarō Ozawa , Sugisaku Aoyama , Mitsusaburō Ramon , Ryōsuke Kagawa , Kichijirô Ueda , Shōzō Nanbu , Kikue Mōri , Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka , Ichirô Amano , Eigorô Onoe , Saburo Date , Fumihiko Yokoyama , Ichisaburo Sawamura , Koji Murata , Yukio Horikita , Akira Shimizu , Shuntaro Tamamura , Shirō Osaki , Toshio Chiba , Hachiro Okuni , Shirō Miura , Hajime Koshikawa , Tetsu Mikami , Jun Fujikawa , Takaji Fukui , Eiji Ishikura , Tokurin Takeda , Koji Kanda , Masayoshi Kikuno , Michio Yuri , Sô Funagami , Shigeru Hasegawa , Teruko Omi , Keiko Koyanagi , Masako Tomura , Tokiko Mita , Tokuko Ueda , Sachiko Soma , Reiko Kongō , Ikkei Tamaki .