[2][3] This film is a 4-minute silent short that tells a story about a foolish rōnin's purchase of a dull-edged sword and subsequent attempts at tsujigiri.
'dull-edged sword'; gatana is rendaku of katana) is a short comedic jidaigeki about a dim-witted self-appointed samurai.
The samurai, trying to figure out why his new sword cannot cut anyone he strikes, tries desperately to attack random townspeople who defend themselves and knock him out.
It has been confirmed that the filmcollector Goro Sugimoto once possessed a 35mm film of this work, but it was destroyed in a suspicious fire in 1971.
The "digitally restored longest version" has a running time of 4 minutes, 16 fps, 35mm, silent, and dyed.