Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-law Kazuma Watanabe (Koyo Katagiri) that Kazuma's father was killed by someone. The murderer was named Matagoro Kawai (Jinya Sato) who was the nephew of his close friend Jinszaemon Kawai (Isao Natsuyagi). He came to help Kazuma who is not good at swords and chase Matazaburo.

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Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

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A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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