This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.

Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Otoku

Otoyo

Shichibei

Yonetomo

Shintaro Mochizuki

Kamio Shuzen

Kinzo

Acting

Omatsu

Okinu

Otsuno

Kanbei Utabe

Doan

Mochizuki Sobei

Utsugi Hyoma

Komai Noto-no-kami
April 20, 1958

Ryûnosuke Tsukue

Otoku

Otoyo

Shichibei

Yonetomo

Shintaro Mochizuki

Kamio Shuzen

Kinzo

Acting

Omatsu

Okinu

Otsuno

Kanbei Utabe

Doan

Mochizuki Sobei

Utsugi Hyoma

Komai Noto-no-kami
