Seppuku plot
"Who can fathom the depths of another man's heart?"
A period of peace has begun in 17th-century Japan. Many clans are disbanded because of this; samurai become unemployed. Some of them threaten harakiri, or ritual suicide, in the hope of alms. As soon as an elderly warrior knocks on the door of the lyi clan's house to commit harakiri, it seems that he too is after some quick pocket money. Yet his intentions turn out to be more sincere than initially thought.