One...two...three Samurai filling the giant screen with flashing swordplay
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
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Tetsuro Tamba
Sakon Shiba
Isamu Nagato
Kyôjûrô Sakura
Mikijiro Hira
Einosuke Kikyo
Miyuki Kuwano
Aya
Yoshiko Kayama
Oyasu
Yōko Mihara
Omaki
Kyoko Aoi
Omitsu
Kamatari Fujiwara
Jinbei
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Uzaemon Matsushita
Jun Tatara
Yasugorô
Toshie Kimura
Oine
Hisashi Igawa
Mosuke
Ichirō Izawa
Toranoshin Tanabe
Kichijirō Ueda
Ishigaki
Nakajirō Tomita
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