![A Sword Against Intrigue](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/fEHlC49FP9mbr6eYnERVw3o5HbG.jpg)
Plot
During the reign of 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi a troupe of Chinese acrobats travel to Japan to help celebrate the building of the Yushima Shrine. At the same time a series of mysterious assassinations take place with a strange and unknown weapon. Master swordsman Saotome Mondonosuke, a 'Hatamoto' (direct retainer of the Shogun) and a man who loves action takes it upon himself to get to the bottom of the mystery and and solve the puzzling crimes.
Writer | N/A |
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Director | Yasushi Sasaki |
Actor | Hiroko Sakuramachi, Utaemon Ichikawa |
Country | Japan |
Production | N/A |