Tange Sazen, the one-eyed, one-armed, disgraced samurai is back, this time played by Ryûtarô Ôtomo. He's still got a son who's smarter than he is, a girlfriend who's upset that he always loses at gambling, and the 100,000-ryo pot (marked down from fifty million in the 1935 movie) is buried somewhere and they're looking for it. There's also a beautiful blind girl he needs 100 ryo so she can have an operation to see again, a scheme to make a statue of a horse that the buyers will think is solid gold, but is wood, lead and gold leaf, and non-disgraced samurai Hashizô Ôkawa, called variously Genzaburo or the Kid from Iga, whom the baddies want to hire Ôtomo to kill because He Knows Too Much.It's a very silly comedy with frequent bouts of Ôtomo fighting dozens of foes in a slapstick fury, lots of double-crossing and betrayals and the odd bits of bondage. Clearly the comic samurai, played for several decades by Denjirô Ôkôchi (who also shows up in this movie) was a popular figure, a sort of Samurai Hoot Gibson. Its a nice bit of fun.