Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

• Daiei Film
• Shintarō Katsu
• Miwa Takada
• Eiko Taki
• Kichijirō Ueda
• Daimaru Nakata
• Mikijiro Hira
• Gen Kimura
• Akitake Kōno