Japanese action drama directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Tatsuya Nakadai plays Ryunosuke Tsukue, a sociopathic samurai with no morals or feelings of consequence for what he does. When he kills a man in a fencing match, the brother of the deceased man vows to train with a master fencer and track down Ryunosuke to get his vengeance.
Threatened from the East and West Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate are dangerously unstable. Lord Li Naosuke the 'Red Devil' has raised up a puppet figure to become the Shogun lemoshil. The year is 1860. Among his opposition is the Mito Clan. Undefeated they are planning his assassination. Amongst their numbers is one Niiro Tsurichiyo (Toshiro Mifune). The illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman Niiro has been brought up in a merchants household harbouring ambitions to bec
Tatsue (Nakadai) a man brought up to recognise only the way of the sword as the way of life finds that the art of killing is a pleasure. Ranged against him is Shimada (Mifune) who regards the use made of the sword as the manifestation of a man's spiritual state and vows to end Tatsue's spree in an era without values...
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