Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Award-winning Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which he directed
in 1954. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor. His 1958 film Rickshaw Man won the Golden
Lion award at that year's Venice Film Festival.
Tsumasaburo Bando or Bantsuma was one of the most prominent Japanese actors of the 20th Century. Famous for his rebellious,
sword fighting roles in many Jidaigeki silent films, he rose to fame after joining the Makino Tojiin Studio, Kyoto in 1923.
