Waseda University

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.

• Kiyoshi SaekiDirector
• Toshio YasumiWriter

• Eitarō OzawaŌkuma Shigenob
• Shizue NatsukawaWife Ayako
• Yūnosuke ItōKoganei Daisuke
• Ryutaro OtomoSuginoe Kōji
• Eijirō TōnoGuest Nomura
• Kinzō ShinOno Azusa (1884)
• Tatsuya IshiguroTakada Sanae (1884)
• Shin TokudaijiKurishima Tsuneki, assassin
• Hisako YamaneMarie
• Shūji SanoNamishima Gen'ichi
• Takashi KandaTakami Gōhei
• Nobuo KanekoHotani Nitarō