Oyuki, a tattooed female assassin – the renegade member of a daimyō's personal bodyguard detail – is killing every man that is sent up against her.

On his travels on "the Demon Path in Hell", Ogami Itto is confronted by a series of five messengers who represent a clan wanting his services.

Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former executioner, (the Kogi Kaishakunin to the Shōgun), is now living off the land with his three-year-old son Daigoro, traveling the countryside as a hired assassin.

In the year 1844 of the Edo Period, as the Tokugawa Shogunate is in decline, the sadistic Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi rapes, tortures, mutilates and murders nobles and commoners at will.

The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

The plot centers on Inukai Heishirō (Mitsuru Fukikoshi), the son of a clan officer.

In the middle of a rainstorm, Ichi overhears a man being killed by a group and then dragged off into the brush.

Hanzo the Razor (かみそり 半蔵, Kamisori Hanzō) is a fictional character featured in the trilogy of Japanese chanbara films of the same name.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (座頭市あばれ火祭り) is a 1970 Japanese Chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi and starring Shintaro Katsu, who also produced and co-wrote the script.

Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former shōgun's executioner or Kogi Kaishakunin, is traveling by river on a boat with his young son Daigoro floating behind in the baby cart.

Shogun Assassin is a jidaigeki film made for the British and American markets and released in 1980.

In 1874, a deathly-ill woman named Sayo gives birth to a baby girl in a women's prison.

A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife and daughter.