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Top billed cast

Ayako WakaoOtsuya
Akio HasegawaShinsuke
Gaku YamamotoTattoo Artist Seikichi
Kei SatōHatamoto Serizawa
Fujio SugaKenji
Asao UchidaTokubei
Reiko FujiwaraOtaki
Kikue MōriShinsuke's Mother
Jun Fujikawa
Tadashi Iwata

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