In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift Wind") emerged in Edo. Shippu would send a warning message called the "Thief's Summons" before striking, yet despite the magistrate's desperate search efforts, they couldn't find any leads. One day, a summons was shot into the residence of Ono Ryusai, who was leading a peaceful retirement life with his two concubines, O-Ran and O-Koshi. With the summons, various individuals including O-Ran's brother Itami Shigoshiro, the master of the Muso-ryu dojo, vigilante Mankichiro, rope expert Gohei, and Den'ichi from Kuromon Town were assigned to monitor the situation. However, while they were distracted by a neighboring fire, a chest containing a thousand ryo was stolen, and O-Koshi was killed.
Kōkichi Takada
Kenji Susukida
Yumeji Tsukioka
Eiji Wakasugi
Junzaburō Ban
Shuhei Yamada
Yoshito Yamaji
Masao Aoyama
Akira Nishioka
Masao Mishima
Ayuko Fujishiro
Yumiko Hasegawa
Jūshirō Konoe
Jotaro Togami
Omenosuke Ichikawa
Noriko Uchibori
Rintarō Fujima
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