Zatoichi on the Road

Ichi is being taken to Doyoma on the promise of just meeting with crime boss Hikozo, no obligation to do anything. On the way his guide is killed by Hikozo's rivals who overheard Ichi and his guide at a tea house. At night he encounters a group of samurai looking for a girl. He finds the exceptionally well-dressed girl hiding in a nearby shed. Mitsu reveals she is being hunted because she stabbed the local lord in the face with her hairpin.