| Release Date | 1952-09-22 |
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| Runtime | 80 minutes |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama, History |
| Stars | Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Rentaro Mikuni, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki |
| Directors | Keigo Kimura, Keigo Kimura, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Yasuichiro Yamazaki |
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.