Overview
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 32 | December 18, 2014 (77) | |
 | 40 | May 2, 2010 (81) | |
 | 25 | 81 | |
 | 38 | August 27, 1996 (65) | |
 | 22 | 79 | |
 | 50 | November 3, 1978 (60) | |
 | 63 | June 21, 1995 (89) | |
 | 21 | 77 | |
 | 32 | February 21, 2021 (84) | |
 | 56 | 112 |