In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto,a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, or where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One,previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, and a former samurai haunted by his past,prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin. Based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa's SANJURO, or assassinate! playfully tweaks samurai film convention,borrowing elements from established chanbara classics and seasoning them with a puny Italian western.
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