Samurai from Nowhere

Misawa Ihei is a swordsman who travels the roads. He duels for prize money. His wife Tae is with him. She detests what he does. She is the daughter of the clan’s chief counsellor. She married the low ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the lord’s mistress. The two of them are trying to get across the border. On the way they meet Oba Gunjuro. Gunjuro is a masterless samurai. He will do anything for money. The three paths cross there. The account rests on the tension between love and hatred, and that tension comes to a head at the end. Isamu Nagato, Shima Iwashita and Tetsuro Tamba appear in the ninety three minute film, a Japanese production Seiichiro Uchikawa finished in 1964.