Overview
In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku was one of them. He discreetly handed a departure note to his fiancée, Otosei, the daughter of Matsudaira Soebe, and left Edo. Otosei's cousin and Koroiku's friend, Domae Daikichi, was once a brave warrior of the shogunate army. However, he had since fallen into a life of debauchery in Yanagibashi and was rumored to be involved with a geisha named Orikki.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 45 | November 10, 1965 (56) | |
 | 41 | June 25, 1989 (76) | |
 | 30 | February 16, 2012 (87) | |
 | 19 | August 19, 1992 (57) | |
 | 20 | 91 | |
| 56 | October 3, 1969 (71) | |
 | 45 | January 24, 1999 (89) | |
 | 39 | March 24, 1995 (79) | |
| - | - | |
 | 44 | July 31, 1983 (73) |