While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

• 乙羽信子
• 吉村実子
• 佐藤慶
• 宇野重吉
• 殿山泰司
• 松本染升
• 加地健太郎
• 田中筆子
• Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
• 田中浩