The last fight put up by remaining Japanese forces and a special volunteer nursing corps on Okinawa at the end of World War II (1944-45).
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in Edo, where he has not set foot in three years.
A good example on ninkyô eiga.
Oryu searches for a blind girl she left behind but gets involved in a Yakuza turf war.
Oryu meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being damaged by air pollution from a local factory.
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, whose livelihoods are threatened, and the railway construction workers.