御用金

德川幕府300年统治期间，佐渡出产的金银是政府财政的重要保证，被世人称为“御用金”。金子经过加工，经过千辛万苦才能运到江户，但在三天的路程中，暗礁狂流成为威胁运金船只的主要威胁。天保二年冬天，运金船在越前鲭江藩海上遇难，附近黑崎村村民拾得金银，但不久后全村人离奇消失。 　　三年后浪人胁坂孙兵卫（仲代达矢 饰）遭人追杀，刺客正是孙兵卫当年的好友带刀所派，继而得知，村民消失事件将要再次发生。这背后究竟隐藏着什么样的秘密？Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai who is an eyewitness to a massacre of a small village by men of his own clan. Even though he did not participate, and did his best to prevent it, he realizes with guilt that he had been manipulated to enable the massacre. He quits and becomes a ronin; wandering the country he learns of a scheme by his former clan to repeat a similar massacre. Determined to stop them, and with the help of women and men who are loyal to him, he endures great hardships, moral and physical, engaging in incredible battles in the effort to atone for his earlier mistake and help to save the lives of defenseless peasants.