[Machine Translation] [Daiei 75th Anniversary Commemorative Daiei THE BEST Masterpiece Series 31 Movies] Shintaro Katsu plays Zatoichi, an outlaw who lives in the world of darkness. 18 films of the popular series are re-released all at once! The cane is soaked in red by the fire of the imperial lanterns! There's no time to put it back in the sheath! --Three years ago, Kichiichi visited the village of Itakura in Kamishu to visit the grave of a man named Kichizo, whom he had unintentionally slain. After three consecutive years of bad harvests, the village squeezed out 3,000 ryo of blood to raise money to pay the bailiff, but on the way to the village, the box was stolen by an unidentified group of people on a mountain road. Ochiyo's testimony, which implicates Ichiro as the avenger of her brother Kichizo, arouses suspicion against Ichiro and the Kunisada Tadaharu family. In order to clear his name, Ichiro heads for Mount Akagi, where the Tadaharu family is holed up...