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- Increased competition between two samurai brothers, threatening to tear their clan apart, eventually leads them to a duel to the death in the early Edo Period. One of them is trained in the famous Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, while the other was taught a secret technique by his master Miyamoto Musashi. The very first pairing of screen legends of Raizo Ichikawa (Sleepy Eyes of Death series) and Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman series).
- Black and white biopic of Kondo Isami, the head of a rural school of swordsmanship who became the legendary leader of the Shinsengumi. The Shinsengumi were a special police force acting on behalf of the last Tokugawa shogun during the Meiji Restoration era. Full of action and pathos, the film begins with the infamous and bloody Ikedaya Affair and ends with Kondo's final battle with the Shinsengumi, fighting the Imperialists who would go on to end two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule.