A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who's lethal with a blade, yet still can't rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord's concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.
Cast
Crew
Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
Director, Screenplay
Shuhei Fujisawa
Novel
Hiroshi Okuda
Editor
Shinji Kugimiya
Director of Photography
Nobuyuki Tohya
Executive Producer
Yoshishige Shimatani
Production Supervisor
Hiroshi Hayakawa
Production Supervisor
Toshiaki Nakazawa
Producer
Wataru Tanaka
Co-Producer
Koji Yoshida
Line Producer
Ikuko Saito
Costumer
Shin'ichi Itô
Sound Effects
Yasuo Hashimoto
Sound Recordist
Katsuro Onoue
Visual Effects
Taro Iwashiro
Original Music Composer
Sosuke Yoshikado
Gaffer
Akira Sakuragi
Art Direction
CHINO Takehiko
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