Merciless swordsman Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a government assassin in feudal Japan who has no remorse and no moral code. When he is scheduled to participate in a friendly fencing contest, he ends up killing his competitor. Next, after a fight with his own mistress, he murders her and deserts their infant son.
Later, while spending the night in a haunted geisha house, he sees the specters of all of his victims and spirals into madness, leaving a bloodbath in his wake.
Director: | Kihachi Okamoto |
Producer(s): | Sanezumi Fujimoto, Kaneharu Minamizato, Masayuki Sato |
Cast: | Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Ichirô Nakatani, Yôko Naitô, Kei Satô |