Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.