A girl finds an old handgun that conjures a mystical scene of samurai gathering within a shrine.

Seven years ago, a monster was found in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread.

A man assists in the ritual suicide of a condemned ronin who refuses to die in silence.

Dressed in white robes, participants climb a mountain, light a sacred fire, and run down the stairs.

A rescue team searches for Teppei, but when he is discovered, he refuses to leave and fights back.

Teppei is a monk who crosses mountains and rivers to arrive at his destination, Mizunashi Shrine.

When the monk Rosuke mysteriously disappears, his lover Nonoka joins the assassin Shinno in a search that leads to a mysterious religious sanctuary. But Rosuke finds himself aboard a spaceship bound for a distant planet.