Gifu Dodo!! Kanetsugu and Keiji

Naoe Kanetsugu and Maeda Keiji: two legendary samurai share a drink and look back on the time they first met over sake.

The uwanariuchi is about to take place and someone doesn't want Kanetsugu to get involved. Could Maeda Keiji be behind all of this or...

Kagekatsu is summoned by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and is ordered to conquer the Sado Province. Kanetsugu suspects it may be a trap, but accompanies his lord and prepares to head to Sado. Kanetsugu tells Keiji that he has to leave for a while, and is disappointed because he had a surprise he wanted to show him, but Keiji has his own surprise planned...

The Uesugi army, led by Naoe Kanetsugu and Uesugi Kagekatsu arrive to Sado island, despite being aware that . They meet with the head of one of Honma clans, Honma Takatsuna of the Kawarada-Honma clan that rules over northern Sado. He seems to cooperate with the Uesugi army, but once they try to commence a battle with the other Honma clan, the Uesugi army realizes just how dangerous the two fe...

Knowing that they are in a trap set by the Chief Advisor, Kanetsugu has something up his own sleeve. The North and South armies of Sado continue their farce of a battle and the North sends in farmers dressed up as soldiers into the river to get shot. This adds to the rage of Keiji and Kanetsugu and this pushes them to finally make their move to take Sado.

The battle in Sado concludes with Uesugi's victory. As Kanetsugu and Keiji recall wrapping things up in Sado, they then remember another incident that threatened the fate of the Uesugi clan. When Kanetsugu was younger, he had visited Oda Nobunaga. Nobunaga gives him a folding fan, but also gives Kanetsugu some startling news...

Kanetsugu and Keiji discuss with the ghost of Nobunaga on what happened with Kanetsugu bringing the folding fan back to Echigo. A young Kanetsugu, otherwise known as Higuchi Yoroku, went back to Echigo, preparing for his possible death when he learned of his true lineage. He meets with the father who raised him, Higuchi Souemon, and they both go to see Uesugi Kenshin's older sister, Sentouin,...

Hideyoshi hasn't given up on trying to get his hands on Echigo. This time, he tries to use Maeda Keiji to bring down the Uesugi clan and get his hands on the province. Kanetsugu is informed of this by an unlikely source, and he plans to head into another battle of wits with Hideyoshi and Keiji joins him, despite their lives being at stake once again...

Kanetsugu and Keiji continue to recount their many adventures when they were younger. Keiji asks Kanetsugu how he got to know his spear-bearer, Mosuke. Kanetsugu tells him about their meeting and the sad past that ended up connecting them for the rest of their lives.

Kanetsugu and Keiji finally make it to Kyoto, despite knowing that they are falling right into Hideyoshi's trap. Kanetsugu meets up with Keiji, who is visiting the courtesan, Usugumo. Keiji knows that all he has to do to win this battle, is to lower his head to Hideyoshi, but his pride is giving him a hard time doing that. Meanwhile, Usugumo shows them that they aren't the only eccentrics...

Kanetsugu and Keiji's audience with Hideyoshi is drawing nearer. Keiji has his own idea on what he's going to do, and Mitsunari has made his own arrangements to try to ensure that Keiji doesn't do anything to get him killed. But then Keiji finally appears in front of Hideyoshi...

Keiji greets Hideyoshi with an outrageous topknot, and is showing blatant disrespect to the Chief Advisor in his greeting. This alone is enough for Hideyoshi to take his life, and the powerful page he had readied is about to strike, but then something unexpected happens...

Kanetsugu and Keiji survive the audience with the Chief Advisor, but his page is not satisfied with something and confronts Kanetsugu. Ishida Mitsunari talks about meeting Oda Nobunaga and everyone prepares for the next big battle that awaits them.

Mosuke and Jirobo have some drinks and have a conversation before the moon about their lord, Naoe Kanetsugu and his adventures up until this point.

Hojo Ujimasa, the fief lord of Odawara violates orders and captures the castle of the Sanada clan, forcing Hideyoshi to command the Tokugawa, Uesugi, and Date clans to attack Odawara. Otani Yoshitsugu, the man who persuaded Ieyasu to join his side, visits Kanetsugu. Otani, wounded, requests an answer ...

April, 1590: Hideyoshi finally launches his campaign to conquer Hojo’s Odawara Castle. Meanwhile, Kanetsugu and the Uesugi forces attack Matsuida Castle, but due to Hojo’s vassal Daido Masashige’s strong defense, a stalemate of advancing and retreating ensues. Kanetsugu has a secret plan, however; he takes a dog with him and enters the mountains. That moonlit night above a hill, Kanetsugu h...

The vassals of the Tokugawa clan scheme to uncover Kenshin’s hidden offspring. “Have you heard of ‘gem eyes’”? An eye is drawn on the back of polished crystal, then inserted into the eye-sockets of the Bodhisattva statue; they are said to resemble real eyes. Kenshin supposedly commanded the crafting of gem-eyes as a memorial offering to Taehime. Now if those gem-eyes have the same characteri...

Date Masamune arrives at the battleground from Oshu, but arrives too late to Odawara; his delinquency angers Hideyoshi, who sentences him to stay confined in Hakone. Prior to the siege of Hachioji Castle, Kanetsugu visits the Hakone hot springs to assess Kojuro’s intentions. But here comes Kojuro’s lord, Date Masamune himself, who raises his fists to the moonlit sky: “I will eventually be ru...

Tokugawa Ieyasu lies in wait for the Uesugi army as they march toward Hachioji Castle. Ieyasu apologizes to Kanetsugu for Ii’s disgraceful conduct, then suddenly stares into Kanetsugu’s face. On the other hand, Kagekatsu and Kanetsugu infer Tokugawa’s scheme, and dispatch Ninja Jirobo to protect Kenshin’s Bodhisattva statue. However, Jirobo gets abducted by Sagen. Jirobo is in a dangerous...

Jirobo was trapped by Sagen and Iga Ninjas; Jirob’s on the verge of death, but he's saved by a bizarre demon-entity. The secret Jirobo is guarding is of that kind of magnitude. It all started further back in time, in 1559, when Nagao Kagetora -eventually called Uesugi Kenshin- and Taehime, the Chief Advisor Konoe Sakahisa’s younger sister, had a small exchange of mutual feelings ...

Hideyoshi’s strategy is ruthless. 15,000 troops of the allied forces of Toyotomi storm Hachioji Castle. Even the women and children are not spared; the utterly gruesome rout is over in a single day. Hojo Ujimasa and Ujinao get the news of their fallen castle, and lose their will to fight when Hideyoshi’s Ishigaki Castle suddenly appears. Kanetsugu questions Kagekatsu about their lopsided vi...

Jirobo, Sagen, Ieyasu, and Shima Sakon: All men with different motives, but they all have one thing in common - they are in pursuit of KenshinÕs Jizo-Bodhisattva statue. Jirobo gets closest to the clue of its whereabouts, and he sends Kanetsugu a report. Jirobo had been on the verge of death, but was saved by White Cloud; now he goes to Daiyoin, TaehimeÕs sister, where he is told a shocking f...

Nobunaga's Ninja Ban Tarozaemon gives clues to Jirobo and Sagen about the whereabouts of the Jizo Bodhisattva statue, respectively in two parts. Jirobo finds himself all alone as he takes a trip to the mountains with an entire Iga Ninja army, as he must guard Kanetsugu's secret.

At an inn on their way, Sakon informs Kanetsugu about Hideyoshios ailment, and speaks of his dream as a strategist. Early in the morning as they are about to leave the inn, a giant body shows up, with white fur smeared in blood.

Shimosaka Sagen and a force of 300 Iga ninjas await Kanetsugu at the cemetery of Mount Koya. Though Kanetsugu and party seem to be doomed, his secret scheme proves efficacious. Sagen decides to reject his affiliation with Tokugawa, and determines to fight Kanetsugu one on one. KanetsuguÕs actions are strange; he takes an iron fan in hand, and begins to dance. The battle for the Jizo Bodhisatt...