Kaze yo Kumo yo Ken yo(1979)

Kaze yo Kumo yo Ken yo

A young man, Habinoshin Fubuki, sets out from his home in a mountain village in Hida, with the goal to become the best swordsman in the world. Along the way, he meets various great martial artists such as Sogen Godo and Onishin Narukami, and his desire to become a swordsman deepens and burns even more. But then he meets Aoi Saumanosuke, a beautiful woman in dressed in a swordsman's clothes, and experiences the pains of adolescence....... Graphic depiction of the life of a swordsmen in the late Tokugawa period.

(Source: Saito-Pro, translated)