樱花满枝春意浓。附近100炮约

　　Directed by another old master of chanbara almost exclusively of the jidai-geki samurai variety. In 1969, these kinds of films were on the wane. Many good directors were finding themselves high-and-dry, even when it came to bread-and-butter assignments. Uchikawa found most of his later work in TV as his movie career faded.