The Mute Samurai episode 1 ~ The Plot Of The Series ~

OSHI SAMURAI - KIICHI HOGAN (THE MUTE SAMURAI)

KUCHIBIRU KARA UTA O UBARETA OTOKO (A MAN WHOSE ABILITY TO SING WAS TAKEN AWAY)

Tomisaburo Wakayama (Kiichi Hogan), Shintaro Katsu (Manji), Judy Ong (Okiku), Eisei Amamoto (Priest)

Directed by Shintaro Katsu ~ AKA ~ ZATOICHI ~

Kiichi Hogan is the son of the righteous Yanagida Toemon, a murdered magistrate in Nagasaki. Eighteen years prior, Kiichi's father was killed for refusing to abide with drug trafficking and other illegal activities. With his parents murdered, and his fiancee raped in front of him by a Spaniard named Gonzales, Kiichi survived the ordeal and grew up to become a bounty hunter. Now, Kiichi roams the crime-ridden villages and cities of Japan in search of Gonzales to exact revenge.

Rescuing an old man and his daughter, Kiichi then saves a Catholic priest from certain death. Out of gratitude, the priest asks Kiichi to stay at the convent for a time. During his stay, the bounty hunter discovers the priest is part of a syndicate of criminals secretly using the church to smuggle opium into Edo.

Opening with a decapitation in the midst of a torrential thunderstorm, we are introduced to the silent samurai, Kiichi Hogan. Narrator Mutsumi Goro then gives us a brief rundown of who our title sword-slinger is, and how he came to his sorrowful predicament.
Thus begins our silent ronin on his road to revenge.

Having previously directed himself in the 24th entry of his famous Zatoichi series, ZATOICHI IN DESPERATION (1972), Shintaro Katsu now directs his younger brother in the inaugural episode of this often shockingly violent television series

You could never get away with this on American Television

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