"The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns."
Toshirō Mifune
as Yonetaro Katayama
Machiko Kyō
as Yuki
Takashi Shimura
as Rokutaro Kosaka
Ichirō Sugai
as Ogasawara
Mantarō Ushio
as
Hikaru Hoshi
Haruyo Ichikawa
as Haruno
Kyoji Sugi
Kōichi Mizuhara
Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka
Bokuzen Hidari
as Gosaku
Yoshio Kosugi
Kumeko Urabe
as Onobu
Keigo Kimura
Director
Masao Nakayama
Original Story
Shigeyoshi Mine
Director of Photography
Masashige Narusawa
Screenplay