A modern-day Don Quixote ... A deluded suburbanite dons a samurai outfit and sets off on a crazed rescue mission in the orient. Mayhem ensues.
In this comedy/adventure, a nervous breakdown and the madness that results leads our hero Brendan Broadbent on an escapade in the Land of the Rising Sun. Obsessed by the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, and taking their fiction for real, he becomes convinced he is possessed by the spirit of an ancient warrior. Suitably emboldened, he embarks on a mission to rescue a remote Japanese village in peril – only to find himself embroiled in a conflict between Yakuza gangsters and a former POW bent on revenge for wartime atrocities.