幽灵船 上部

　　朝日新聞に連載の大佛次郎の原作を、「午後8時13分」の須崎勝弥が脚色。監督は「隼人族の叛乱」の松田定次、撮影は同じく川崎新太郎。東映スコープ、イーストマン東映カラー。主演は「隼人族の叛乱」の中村錦之助、「仇討崇禅寺馬場」の大友柳太朗、「股旅男八景　殿さま鴉」の月形龍之介、長谷川裕見子。ほかに大河内傳次郎、進藤英太郎、原健策、三島雅夫、桜田弘子など。
　　As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…