Oshi Zamurai-Kiichi Hogan Volume 12
Remastered Academy Standard (4:3)
Starring: WAKAYAMA Tomisaburo
KATSU Shintaro,
Created by 3 of the greatest names in Japanese cinema, GOSHA Hideo, KATSU Shintaro, and WAKAYAMA Tomisaburo, this ground-breaking television series features some of the most exciting sword action ever filmed.

Volume 12 contains episodes 23 and 24

Episode 23:    

”A Camellia In Winter”

(Kantsubaki Bojo)
Original airdate 3/10/74

Directed by: YASUDA Kimiyoshi

While hunting for a wanted criminal Kiichi Hogan turns down a woman’s request to help her with a vendetta against the yakuza boss who framed her father and caused the death of her mother. The silent samurai has an entirely different plan in mind.  Playing the role of her fiancé, he is able to infiltrate the band of cutthroats who are responsible for the illegal smuggling of foreign goods into the area and try learn just who the mastermind of the operation is.  Will he be able to keep up the charade long enough to find out the truth behind the smuggling operation and the frame-up of an innocent man who has lost the will to live? 

Episode 24:

”A Woman’s Tears”

(Kanashii Onna)
Original airdate  3/17/74

Directed by: OTA Akikazu

When Kiichi Hogan meets a man who has been cut down by assassins, he is plunged into an adventure that threatens his very life.  The man gives the Mute Samurai his life savings with a final plea to use the money and redeem his daughter from the bordello he sold her to, but upon his arrival the yakuza boss has already sold the girl to a foreigner named Franco who will send her across the ocean to a life worse than death as a prostitute for the hated gaijin.  Further complications arise when her lover, a young man named Sokichi attempts to escape with her and elude the deadly knife-thrower who acts as bodyguard for the boss.  Can Kiichi Hogan stop Franco from taking the girl out of Japan after he, himself is taken prisoner by the yakuza boss?