Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

瓜二つの影武者!
戦場で討たれたのは、本物か、偽者か!
昨日の百姓が今日の大名という戦国の動乱期。
飛騨の国の貧乏郷士の倅、二宮杏之助もまた、ひとかどの武士になりたいという夢を持っていた。
ある日、池本家の軍監が突然やってきて、杏之助を召し抱えたいと言った。
三日後、池本家の館に行って杏之助は驚いた。自分に瓜二つの武士が二人もいたのだった……。

歌舞伎名代のひとつで、道成寺伝説をもとにした悲恋物語。

1963 Japanese film by Kon Ichikawa

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

1962 film directed by Kenji Misumi