Saotome Mondonosuke, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, must foil a 　　Minister's sister's plan to assassinate the Shogun. Yet before he can act, the Minister 　　pre-emptively kidnaps Saotome's lover and her brother. Starring screen legend Utaemon 　　Ichikawa in the role he made famous this is one of the longest running series in Japanese 　　film history. And it features an early a...