Runtime: 129

Director: Yoji Yamada

Cast:

Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi

Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada), a low–ranking samurai with few ambitions cares for his mentally–ill mother and two daughters following the death of his wife. C

Circumstances surrounding the death of his clan‘s leader force him to accept a deadly challenge with a rogue samurai just as he discovers that Tomoe (Rie Miyazawa), his childhood love is beyond his reach.