After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realises that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
In post-WWII Japan, a lonely woman tries to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the 16th-century.