Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to keep playing in the hope of defeating star player Sekine.

• TOHO
• Toho Pictures
• Shintarō Katsu
• Tatsuya Nakadai
• Tamao Nakamura
• Mikiko Otonashi
• Makoto Fujita
• Kan Taniguchi
• Tomo'o Nagai
• Kenzō Tabu