In the Edo period under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, in the Hane domain in Bungo, the young samurai Tanno Shozaburo (played by Junichi Okada) had a dispute with his friends over trivial matters, and then drew his sword and injured each other. Family boss Nakane Hyoemon (played by Kushida Kazumi) pardoned his death penalty and ordered him to monitor the samurai living in a small mountain village outside the city...