
Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted by the Shogun, he serves as the official decapitator, assisting lords and samurai who have been ordered by the Shogun to commit seppuku. One day, Itto’s wife and members of his household are brutally murdered by a clan seeking to avenge their lord’s execution, which had been carried out by Itto. In the wake of the attack, two items are left in Itto’s home: his unhurt infant son, Daigoro, and a symbol meant to signify Itto’s betrayal of the Shogun. Disgraced by the false symbol, Itto is labeled a traitor and forced to forfeit his position. He becomes a ronin, wandering the country with his son, searching for the men who killed his wife, seeking to clear his name and avenge her death.
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Air Date: 1973-04-08
A noblewoman who was forced into prostitution after her fiancé and family were murdered at their wedding, asks Itto t...
Air Date: 1973-04-15
Ogami Itto and his young son Daigoro arrive in a town known for its hot springs, but the entire village has been take...
Air Date: 1973-04-22
Poisoned after a surprise attack, Ogami must face a deadly gauntlet of Yagyu assassins in order to fulfill a promise ...
Air Date: 1973-04-29
A meeting on the Assassin’s Road causes Itto to remember the events leading up to his wife’s murder, and why he chose...
Air Date: 1973-05-06
Multiple stories interweave as Daigoro becomes lost while seeking medicine for his father and is befriended by a youn...
Air Date: 1973-05-13
When his father is delayed for multiple days after an assassination goes awry, a desperate Daigoro wanders off and fa...
Air Date: 1973-05-20
Itto is hired to assassinate a gunsmith who has reportedly developed a repeating rifle, a weapon that could completel...
Air Date: 1973-05-27
Itto accepts an assignment to stop a shipment of gold, assassinate a government official, kill an entire team of cove...
Air Date: 1973-06-03
As Lord Yagyu prepares to send his last and strongest son, Gunbei, to kill Itto Ogami, the events of Gunbei and Itto'...
Air Date: 1973-06-10
A scheming magistrate's plan places Itto in the middle of a war between two Yakuza families, one of which is lead by ...
Air Date: 1973-06-17
While the Yagyu set a trap for Itto, a group of con artists pose as Lone Wolf and Cub and a disgraced Samurai takes o...
Air Date: 1973-06-24
As Itto waits for an opportunity to assassinate a sadistic Lord, he and Daigoro observe the life of a young boat woma...
Air Date: 1973-07-01
While Itto tracks down the killers of a young woman's entire family, Daigoro becomes caught up in a policeman's hunt ...
Air Date: 1973-07-08
Itto accepts a job that will protect the location of a secret gold mine, but the task is complicated when a rival swo...
Air Date: 1973-07-15
Itto must deal with a well-wishing doctor and a group of shadow ninja when he's tasked with killing a group of assass...
Air Date: 1973-07-22
Itto returns to a spot on the banks of the Shinobu River where he once executed the lord of a Clan, and faces a samur...
Air Date: 1973-07-29
Government officials convince Asaemon the Beheader, one of the few swordsmen in Japan with a level of skill close to ...
Air Date: 1973-08-05
Itto meets Sakon Shino, a beggar samurai who has given up killing for a life as a street performer. Shino urges Itto ...
Air Date: 1973-08-12
The Lone Wolf and Cub have their work cut out for them when a seemingly simple job turns into a deadly game of lies a...
Air Date: 1973-08-19
The Lone Wolf and Cub rescue a woman who has sold herself into prostitution in order to stage her revenge on her murd...
Air Date: 1973-08-26
Desperate to keep their clan from being dissolved, the family of a murdered Lord fake the real killer’s murder and as...
Air Date: 1973-09-02
Assassins from the Kurokuwa clan stage a non-stop series of attacks that lasts for days, slowly steering an exhausted...
Air Date: 1973-09-09
Itto is hired to kill a samurai who has allegedly turned his men against Lord Norikatsu, but the true reasons turn ou...
Air Date: 1973-09-16
Ogami mysteriously joins a group of “the unclothed”, men with the unusual job of carrying people and baggage across a...
Air Date: 1973-09-23
After being thrown off a cliff during a battle with the Yagyu assassins, Daigoro searches for his now missing father ...
Air Date: 1973-09-30
Itto tries to follow the trail left by his missing son, Daigoro, while fighting off the forces of Lord Retsudo and hi...