

06/02/1993
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire.

Masakazu Tamura
as Ogami Itto

Tatsuya Nakadai
as Yagyu Retsudo

Yushi Shoda
as Daigoro

Shiho Fujimura
as Wife of the Chamberlain

Isao Hashizume
as Yagyu Bizen

Kimiko Ikegami
as Yagyu Chizuro

Renji Ishibashi
as Matsudaira

Shima Iwashita
as Abandoned woman bearing a daughter

Chōichirō Kawarasaki
as Chamberlain giving shelter to Ogami Itto

Yuko Kotegawa
as Ogami Azami

Toru Masuoka
as Yagyu Kurando

Kunie Tanaka
as Buddhist Priest

Mayumi Wakamura
as Yagyu Nanao
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