The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

• Toei Company
• Kusuo Abe
• Shinobu Chihara
• Kensaku Hara
• Haruyo Ichikawa
• Kunio Kaga
• Ryōsuke Kagawa
• Chiezō Kataoka
• Gorō Kawabe