A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Plot: In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumored, drove the previous champion (Kazuma’s father) to suicide. Possessed of much raw talent, Kazuma is also very much a coward, holing himself up in an inn run by the kindly Okinu (Kinuyo Tanaka) and generally avoiding confrontation of any sort

Kazuo Hasegawa
Kinuyo Tanaka
Sensho Ichikawa
Fumiko Katsuragi
Haruo Tanaka
Unpei Yokoyama
Tamae Kiyokawa
Sachiko Mitani
Yōnosuke Toba
Tokue Hanazawa
Taizō Fukami
Mikio Naruse
Hideo Oguni
Ko Fujibayashi