خلاصه داستان : داستان حدود سال ۱۶۵۰، پس از مرگ سومین شوگون توکوگاوا، زمانی که رونین‌ها از ادو، پایتخت نظامی، اخراج شدند، اتفاق می‌افتد. در طول بی‌ثباتی سیاسی پس از مرگ ایمیتسو توکوگاوا، قبیله نینجای ایگا به رهبری هانزو علیه قبیله کوگا می‌جنگد، زیرا جناح‌های مختلف برای به دست گرفتن قدرت رقابت می‌کنند. شوگون کودک، ایتسونا، ربوده می‌شود...

The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.

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Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.