Эпоха Гэнроку. У скакового поля Такаданобаба впервые встречаются два самурая — ронин Накаяма Ясубэй и хатамото Тангэ Тэнзэн. Один вступает в неравный бой и побеждает в нём; второй становится случайным свидетелем этого происшествия. Им будет суждено полюбить одну женщину и подвергнуться суровым испытаниям. Но ни тот, ни другой не дрогнет в бою и до конца исполнит свой долг, как и велит Путь самурая.
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the owner of the Matsukawa troupe, she grew up without knowing the love of her mother. She has been on stage since she was a child, but oneday she cried and complained to her father, and she stopped going to school. In a mock exams, Kanako overtook her classmate Tetsuji to take the lead. That evening, Kanako went to the Yasue Theater in the neighboring town with Eikichi, and saw the affair of her stepmother, Yumi, who should have been resting due to her illness. The man ran away in a hurry, and Yumi confessed that Kanako's mother, Miyako, had also run away for the same reason...
