In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate.
Hemejirô
Shiro, un ronin nihilista sin ley, junto con un espadachín sin precedentes, dedica su tiempo a masacrar a sus enemigos. Arrastrando su incomodidad, intenta suicidarse saltando de un puente en una de sus muchas peleas sangrientas. Para su sorpresa, se encuentra reanimado por el cuerpo cálido y suave de una de las prostitutas del clan Bohachi, que controlan el distrito del place de la capital, Yoshiwara. Este clan con estrategias maquiavélicas y normas de vida de los más curiosas, se propone contratar a Shiro para librar a la ciudad de la competencia desleal de la prostitución, que floreció con libertad, pero este ultimo se da cuenta que esta siendo manipulado....
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
Japanese comedy film.
