Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
- Genre: Drama, Action, History
- Studio: TOHO, Mifune Productions
- Keyword: japan, samurai, based on novel or book, based on true story, sword fight, tokyo, japan, ronin, jidaigeki, edo period, 19th century, bakumatsu
- Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuyoshi Ehara