Love and Faith (1978)

6.4/10 154 min Drama

Overview

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.

Cast

Ryoko Nakano

Lady Ogin

Takashi Shimura

Sen Rikyu

Atsuo Nakamura

Soji Yamagami

Takeshi Katō

Daijirō Harada

Taiji Tonoyama

Takao Itō

Kaneko Iwasaki

Kurara Haruka

Choei Takahashi

Yasukiyo Umeno

Kensaku Hara

Eiji Okada

Ankokuji

Kō Nishimura

Sojin Kamiya

Kichiemon Nakamura II

Ukon Takayama

Toshirō Mifune

Taiko Hideyoshi

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