103 minutes
4/7/1954
In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift Wind") emerged in Edo. Shippu would send a warning message called the "Thief's Summons" before striking, yet despite the magistrate's desperate search efforts, they couldn't find any leads. One day, a summons was shot into the residence of Ono Ryusai, who was leading a peaceful retirement life with his two concubines, O-Ran and O-Koshi. With the summons, various individuals including O-Ran's brother Itami Shigoshiro, the master of the Muso-ryu dojo, vigilante Mankichiro, rope expert Gohei, and Den'ichi from Kuromon Town were assigned to monitor the situation. However, while they were distracted by a neighboring fire, a chest containing a thousand ryo was stolen, and O-Koshi was killed.
Kōkichi Takada
as 黒門町の伝七
Kenji Susukida
as 池の端の万五郎
Yumeji Tsukioka
as お俊
Eiji Wakasugi
as 遠山左衛門尉
Junzaburō Ban
as 獅子ッ鼻の竹
Shuhei Yamada
as 三下の紋吉
Yoshito Yamaji
as 早縄の五兵衛
Masao Aoyama
as 三太
Akira Nishioka
as 吉次
Masao Mishima
as 大野柳斉
Ayuko Fujishiro
as お越
Yumiko Hasegawa
as お蘭
Jūshirō Konoe
as 伊丹重四郎
Jotaro Togami
as 今田茂十郎
Omenosuke Ichikawa
as 中村千之亟
Noriko Uchibori
as お島
Rintarō Fujima
as 立花主水
Jinichi Amano
as 鳥木伍郎太