Kaze no Bushi (風の武士) is a 1961 jidaigeki novel by Ryōtarō Shiba (the author of Fukurō no Shiro).
It has been adapted into a 1960-1961 TV series[1] and a Toei Company 1964 color chanbara film under the same title, directed by Tai Kato.
[2] The film tells the story of a womanizing ninja named Nabari Shinzo (Hashizo Okawa) during the Tokugawa shogunate.
Hired for a mission by the government, Shinzo soon finds himself in the center of a multi-sided intrigue, surrounded by double agents and fighting for the woman he loves (Hiroko Sakuramachi as Chino) against a treacherous ronin rival.
A remastered version of the film has been released on a DVD by Toei Video in Japan in 2006 (in 16:9 widescreen version with a trailer and photo gallery special features).