Plot
Follow the money. In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among high officials to "borrow" gold from the shogunate's treasury and loan it out to the destitute, including impecunious samurai - exacting either interest payments or family heirlooms from the debtors. Along the way, Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.
Written by
Takeshi Kanda, Kazuo Koike, Yasuzô Masumura
Directed by
Yoshio Inoue
Crew
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Katsu Production Co. Ltd., Toho
Languages
Awards
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