Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).

5年前、笹子峠で父を惨殺され、その形見のドスを持って犯人を探して旅をする一本松と、同じく5年前、笹子峠で御用金を持って姿を消した父を探す黒木弥一郎。佐渡金山で二人が出会い、真犯人を探し出していくまでを描いたヤクザものの時代劇アクション。スピード感と映像美が秀逸な三隅監督の傑作。

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

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.