The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro of the Shimazu family. When the boss of the Shimazu is killed, Shigejiro takes revenge and is sent to jail. Upon his release, he meets the dying widow of one of hid followers and takes her to her father, Boss Shiomasa, who take him into his family. But when Shiomasa is killed by an old enemy, Shigejiro is obligated to take revenge...

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

影片通过三段故事展现了17世纪日本德川幕府时代的残酷风情画： 第一段：少女和病重的哥哥相依为命，还时常受到别人的欺负。后来兄妹俩发生乱伦，心怀愧疚的哥哥戳颈自杀，女孩则因乱伦罪名受到幕府的严惩…… 第二段：新来的尼姑庵主持发现小尼姑和和尚的私情，嫉妒和愤恨让她将小尼姑活活折磨致死，主持与其帮凶同样没有逃脱幕府酷刑的惩罚…… 第三段：类似《地狱变》和《禁室培育》的综合体。江户名雕长（小池朝雄 饰）最新作品“地狱变”受到酷吏南原（渡边文雄 饰）的嘲笑，为了夺回荣誉，他请求观摩南原拷打女囚的场面，最终他完成了生命中最辉煌的作品……

The story takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in 1965. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.

悪魔の手毬唄 Devil'ｓ Nursery Rhyme 1961（昭和36年）/11/15公開　84分　モノクロ　シネスコ　映倫番号：12631 配給：東映　製作：東映 鬼首村という山郷に伝わる手毬唄が、次々と殺人を予告していく。その不可解な謎に、私立探偵金田一耕助がスポーツカーを駆って挑んでいく。 人気流行歌手の和泉須磨子が、故郷の鬼首町鬼塚村に里帰りする途中で、惨殺死体となって発見された。ラジオからは彼女の新曲「鬼首村手毬唄」が流れていた…。鬼首町警察の捜査本部では主任の磯川警部が早速捜査を開始。名探偵・金田一耕助も温泉宿「亀の湯」に宿を取り調査を開始する。須磨子の生まれた仁礼家は鬼塚一の富豪であるが、当主の剛造は「手毬唄」に怯えていた。そんな中、辰蔵という男が剛造の前に十八年ぶりに現れた。一方金田一は、亀の湯に泊まっている学生の遠藤和雄が仁礼家の次女・里子の学友であることを知る。また、湯治客の放庵は「手毬唄」を口ずさみ、別の湯治客・石山の部屋からは謡曲が聞こえてくる。不気味な状況の中で仁礼家の長男・源一郎と里子は、須磨子の死が剛造に届いた脅迫状と関連していると怯えるが、遂に銃声が鳴り響き、駆けつけた金田一は源一郎の死体を発見する。しかしこれを「自殺に見せかけた毒殺」と見破った金田一は現場検証の帰りに村のお告げ婆・おいとに出会う。おいとは放庵が村の暗い過去を知っているとささやくのであった。

1969 film by Teruo Ishii