"It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed aikido and where he has learned martial arts."
Jirô Chiba
as Morihei Ueshiba
Sonny Chiba
as
Yōko Koizumi
as Mine
Yoko Horikoshi
as Hatsu
Ryūnosuke Kaneda
as Onisaburo Deguchi
Akira Shioji
Takashi Noguchi
Kazuyuki Saito
Michimaro Otabe
Masataka Iwao
Seigo Inoue
Tetsuo Torisu
Teruo Fujinaga
Takanori Oya
Mineko Maruhira
as Nami Takahashi
Reiichi Hatanaka
Hiroshi Hatano
Satoru Nabe
Yasuo Matsumoto
Jiro Shirai
Takaya Shimoyama
Shunji Sasaki
as Fujishima
Kenji Ikeda
Jo Moriya
Masafumi Suzuki
Tetsuo Fujisawa
Gentarō Mori
Yukio Yano
Yasumori Hikita
Junpei Arishima
Tetsu Sakai
as Narrator (voice)
as Sokaku Takeda
Go Otsuka
Etsuko Shihomi
Tsunehiko Watase
Shigehiro Ozawa
Director
Toshiaki Tsushima
Original Music Composer
Kenji Tsukagoshi
Director of Photography
Seiko Shimura
Screenplay
Kōji Takada
Yoshikazu Sano
Art Direction
Tadao Kanda
Editor
Akiyasu Tawarazaka
Assistant Director