Um samurai cínico é deixado como o único sobrevivente a cumprir um plano para assassinar o fantoche de um vilão com a intenção de usurpar o xogunato, no japão do século XVII. Um ancião do Shogunate se une para governar o Japão, fazendo seu fantoche, o irmão do Shogun Tsunashige, o próximo Shogun. O melhor estrategista do Japão, Yamaga, lidera uma conspiração para deter o Ancião, mas a sua cabala é traída e a maioria dos conspiradores é capturada e torturada.
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The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk samurai, a master thief, a sword instructor and a Lord who is disguised as a ronin since it is an executable offense for a lord to wander outside of their domain without permission. As the Chief Magistrate becomes suspicious of the Owari plot to send men to Kodenmacho Prison to start a riot he begins to investigate the rumors. He soon calls upon the Lord of Mikazuki Castle and the Shogun's best friend to help thwart the evil ambitions and battle the rouge swordsman hired by the Owari Clan.
Early film by Eiichi Kudô.
Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.
This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered the ultimate happiness in life when he is reunited with Tone, the love of his life. However, his days of happiness are overshadowed by an upcoming duel with his fateful enemy Miyamoto Musashi.
No final do século XVIII, um jovem samurai beberrão viaja com seus dois servos pela estrada de Tokaido, rumo a Edo (atual Tóquio). Ao longo do caminho, são acompanhados por todo tipo de pessoas que fazem o mesmo trajeto: andarilhos, vendedores, artistas, camponeses, um menino órfão e também, segundo as autoridades, um ladrão de identidade desconhecida.
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.
