With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Isazo (Ichikawa Raizo), often called ‘The Ripper’, is a living legend in the world of the Yakuza. Known for his swordsmanship and bravery, but also for his polite manners, and gifted talent in gambling. One late fall, while staying at an inn near Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was unable to marry due to the class differences between them.

眼の見えぬ市（勝新太郎）が、仕込み杖の剣で悪を斬る。「子母澤寛が伝聞で記した小編が、勝新太郎の怪演により時代劇屈指の人気ヒーローとなった。座頭市は天保の頃の盲目の侠客。市という名前以外、本名は不明とされている。通常は揉み治療を渡世として関八州を歩く。博賭もすれば女も好むが、己の信条により非道を行う者には怒りの仕込み杖が襲う。主演の勝新太郎も自ら監督や脚本を手がけるほどの入れ込みようで、仕込み杖を使った逆手の居合いに下駄履き姿など、原作にはない勝新ならではのアイデアが随所にちりばめられている。【この項、時代劇専門チャンネル広報資料より引用】」松平健は、本作のうち第23話「心中あいや節」での庄屋の息子役が正式デビュー作とされている。（実際にはそれ以前の出演ドラマが数本存在する）。一部資料では放送終了が1975/04/07と記載されているが誤りと思われる。また一部資料では結束　信二氏の脚本作品と記載されているが実際のクレジットでは確認できなかった。提供・大正製薬、ニッカウヰスキー、黄桜酒造、カシオ計算機、花王石鹸。

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.