Opinión de jamesrupert2014

To pay for a meal he couldn't afford, a ragged, drifting Ronin who calls himself 'the Wolf' (Isao Natsuyagi) starts helping out in a blind woman's waystation only to get caught up in a murderous plot by gangsters to take over the local shipping routes. The film lifts a number of visual and musical cues from contemporaneous 'spaghetti westerns' to good effect and the fight scenes are generally well done - full of action but not so 'over-the-top' as to start looking silly. For a mid-sixties jidaigeki, the film has some gory moments (although the blood-letting is a bit inconsistent - some people simply fall when apparently impaled or slashed open, others drop in a hissing, splattering flood of 'blood'). Natsuyagi is quite good as the frequently hungry (and messily eating) samurai and manages to make his otherwise clichéd character interesting. Not as good as director Hideo Gosha's earlier samurai outings (such as 1964's 'Three Outlaw Samurai') but watchable for fans of the sanguineous genre.