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While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Nobuko Otowa
Woman
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Young Woman
Kei Satō
Hachi
Jūkichi Uno
The Samurai
Taiji Tonoyama
Ushi
Someshō Matsumoto
Runaway Warrior
Kentarô Kaji
Runaway Warrior
Fudeko Tanaka
Old Woman
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Horse Riding Samurai
Hiroshi Tanaka
Horse Riding Samurai
Kanzō Uni
Horse Riding Samurai
Hosui Araya
Ushi's Follower
Michinori Yoshida
Samurai with Blood
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Horse Riding Samurai A
Nobuko Shimakage
Child
Director
Kaneto Shindō
Writers
Kaneto Shindō
Hikaru Hayashi
Original Music Composer
Toshio Enoki
Editor
Kiyomi Kuroda
Director of Photography
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1/14/2026
In the grip of war and famine, a makeshift hut amid the reeds, and two women—one waiting for her son, the other for her husband. So far, everything is as it is in other ordinary drama films. However, when the man of the house's friend returns from the war and tells them he died in battle, and especially when the young widow begins to meet with the person who returned from the war alive, things change.
