Blind Monk Swordsman

Directed by Shumei Onishi

With Jūshirō Konoe, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Haruo Tanaka, Shinobu Chihara and Masao Mishima

This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death” who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and Tomisaburo Wakayama. Apparently so. And the swordsman motif seems to have been concurrent with Daiei's first ZATOICHI production.