Sanjuro
Top 10 Billed Cast
Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
Hanbei Muroto
The Spy
Iori Izaka
Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
Kurofuji
Takebayashi
Mutsuta's wife
Kikui
Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
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