Samurai Fiction

In a feudal Japan shot almost entirely in black and white, a sacred sword has been stolen from a clan's keeping. Hanbei Mizoguchi (Morio Kazama), a young warrior still in training, sets out after it with a few clumsy companions, while Hiroyuki Nakano scores the chase with Tomoyasu Hotei's electric guitar. Hanbei crosses the monochrome countryside with his hand on his scabbard, Koharu (Tamaki Ogawa) waiting behind him.