In Search of Mother

Directed by Tai Katō

With Kinnosuke Nakamura, Hiroki Matsukata, Keiko Okawa, Michiyo Kogure and Hitomi Nakahara

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding her and leaving the swordsman's life behind. But a team of rival gangsters is hot on his heels.