Screenplay: Shotaro Ikenami

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yoshio Harada · Ayumi Ishida · Keiko Kishi

Plot Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Shima Iwashita · Takashi Yamaguchi · Shogoro Ichikawa

Direction Yûsuke Watanabe

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Koji Takahashi · Taisaku Akino · Tamio Kawaji

Plot The story of three Edo assassins, devil-tattooed Dr. Baian Fujieda is the preeminant among them, the other two include a ronin who works largely in the open & will kill...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Ken Ogata · Masaomi Kondo · Teruhiko Saigô

Plot Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or...

Direction Yoshiki Onoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Yumi Takigawa · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Chikage Awashima · Kiku Hôjô · Keiko Kishi

Plot In the waning years of the 16th Century in Japan, when warlords fought bitterly to rule an emerging nation, Oda Nobunaga was the most violent and ruthless of all. Rising...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Mayumi Ogawa · Kimie Shingyoji · Junko Miyashita

Plot Fujieda Baian is a doctor/assassin.