When last we saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill, and with the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As always, in the background, the subtle hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan.