開国か攘夷か─激動の幕末を舞台に、攘夷論に反対しあくまでも開国を主張し、桜田門外で水戸浪士の襲撃をうけて果てた大老・井伊直弼。彼の生涯を数人の女性をからませて描く。
Shōroku Onoe II
Ii Naosuke
Chikage Awashima
Murayama Taka
Kaoru Yachigusa
Masako no Kata
Keiji Sada
Nagano Shuzen
Shikaku Nakamura
Inuzuka Gaiji
Kyōko Kagawa
Akiyama Shizu
Shinsuke Ashida
Takemoto
Masakazu Tamura
Tada Tatewaki
Kō Nishimura
Tada Ichiro
Asao Koike
Minegishi Ryunosuke
Isamu Nagato
Kanroku
Masami Shimojō
Miura Hokuan
Kazuo Kitamura
Utsuki Kageyoshi
Akira Kume
Townsend Harris
