お役者変化

Directed by Tatsuo Ōsone

With Kōkichi Takada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Chieko Naniwa, Yatarō Kitagami and Mitsuo Nagata

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who tried to force himself on Gennosuke's beloved foster-sister, Kikuno. As a result, Gennosuke's younger brother, Shichisaburo, was killed. Separated from his mother, Gennosuke found himself on the run from the officials.