Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now and then, Masao would be toyed around by Emiko, but little by little he started taking a liking to her loveliness. As days went by, Masao started opening up to Emiko – something that he rarely did to others. However, there was just something about Emiko – something that bothered Masao - that wouldn’t go away.

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outlaws led by Hyoe, a scoundrel whose lethal sword skills place him at the tip of the spear in a deadly uprising against the corrupt Shogunate and its army, led by former friend-turned-archrival Doken.

A case of match-fixing was discovered in the university baseball league. Their coach, Kurosawa (Sugawara Takuma) is made to hold an emergency press conference, where the media accused the prestigious Kirin University of match-fixing, with Kurosawa being pressured to take the fall. Harangued at every turn and convinced of a criminal conspiracy going to the top, Kurosawa turns to his old friend Aramasa Bunji (Motomiya Yasukaze), a fellow Kirin University alum and now a real estate company president, for help. Bunji reaches out to his "brothers", the "grey area" day-traders the Odagiri siblings (Yabe Kyosuke and Minami Keisuke) and the heir apparent of the Osaka-based yakuza Kiyotake Family, Kiyotake Yoshitora (Sakaki Hideo) to investigate Kurosawa's lead ...

Having discovered the yakuza connection between the Kirin University's President Ninomiya to the Kadomatsu Family yakuza group, Bunji (Motomiya Yasukaze) and his friends have become targets for silencing, spearheaded by Ninomiya's ambitious and ruthless illegitimate son Kimijima (Inari Takuo). Bunji, while lauded for his history of being a vicious fighter, has explicitly chosen to avoid entering the yakuza with Tora (Sakaki Hideo) or "grey area" business with the Odagiri brothers (Yabe Kyosuke and Minami Keisuke) for the sake of his wife. However, constant stalking, beatings, and endangerment of his family and friends pushes Bunji to the edge to finally dealing with Ninomiya and Kimijima by whatever means necessary ...

Biopic about the life of Kitazawa Rakuten, who laid the foundation for the Japanese manga industry.