A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
어느 한적한 마을을 찾아온 두 명의 남자. 한 사람은 아버지의 유품인 붉은 단도를 지닌 혈기왕성한 잇뽄마츠이고 또 한 명은 낭인 구로키 야이치로이다. 두 사람은 각각 5년 전 공무금 약탈사건으로 아버지를 잃고 아버지의 복수를 위해 살아왔다. 두 사람은 곧 마을의 사무라이를 의심하고 뒤를 캐던 중 또 다른 배후가 있다는 사실을 알아낸다. 그리고 두 사람은 서로의 아버지가 자신의 원수가 아닐까 의심하기 시작한다. (한국시네마테크협의회)
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
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The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to regret this laziness when he falls in love with the daughter of a higher class samurai and is informed on their wedding night that he must defeat her before their marriage can be consumated....
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsenhumi out of admiration for its leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Kaidan directed by Katsuhiko Tasaka.
