
In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortune into establishing the Tokyo Professional School in a tea field in Waseda Village. With seven professors, including Takada Sanae and Tsubouchi Yūzō, and eighty-seven students, government interference extended even to finances; Ono Azusa, who tirelessly worked to secure funding, died from overwork.
Directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
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October 27, 1953
Japanese

Eitarō Ozawa
Ōkuma Shigenob

Shizue Natsukawa
Wife Ayako

Yūnosuke Itō
Koganei Daisuke

Ryutaro Otomo
Suginoe Kōji

Eijirō Tōno
Guest Nomura

Kinzō Shin
Ono Azusa (1884)

Tatsuya Ishiguro
Takada Sanae (1884)

Shin Tokudaiji
Kurishima Tsuneki, assassin

Hisako Yamane
Marie

Shūji Sano
Namishima Gen'ichi

Takashi Kanda
Takami Gōhei

Nobuo Kaneko
Hotani Nitarō
Yasushi Nagata
Tsubouchi Yūzō
Sugisaku Aoyama
Guest Watanabe

Tomo'o Nagai
Student Mizuno

Yoshibumi Tajima
Detective
Junji Masuda
Nishikata Gensuke

Koreya Senda
Kageyama Haruo

Kaneko Iwasaki
Female Student
Gen Funabashi
Namishima Keikichi