Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura). He learns that Yataro is in the process of marrying Oito (Tomoka Kurokawa), the daughter of Shigezo of Narumi, a great thief from Owari. Heizo learns the true identity of the thread and the evil plans of the second generation Narumi Shigezo (Fuse Hiroshi), and he meets Nagashima no Kugoro (Matsudaira Ken), a former thief who is trying to arrange a marriage deal to return the favor to the previous generation Kasayama and the previous generation Narumi. ) while hiding his identity...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

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Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

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