A 70's masterpiece of Japanese Martial Arts. A scholar finds himself caught up in a courtly intrigue. The best are the fluttering martial-arts scenes, which are all very well and fine until you realize that all these wonderful arial movements are facilitated by out of sight trampolines...
Still, charming. And the characters - of the Abbot, the General, the Princess, the Scholar, well...it creates the template for a lot of the movies to follow.