A killer driven by revenge tracks down and murders the five women who sexually molested his mentally unstable best friend and drove him to suicide. All the while the police search the underworld for the killer, the press plays up the sensational sex killings, and the killer himself finds his resolve weakened by his budding romantic relationship with a pretty young shopgirl.

本格派推理作家寒川，在博物馆观佛像时偶遇少妇静子小姐。静子作为推理小说迷，与寒川迅速熟络交好。不久，静子小姐意外的接到一封署名大江春泥的恐吓信，原来与寒川同为推理文学界竞争对手的另一位变格派推理作家大江春泥是静子早年的男朋友，曾因静子的另嫁他人而陷入人生的低谷。时隔多年 后，大江春泥以变格推理小说家的身份再次出现并打算实施报复，静子原本平静的生活受到了干扰。随着一封封恐吓信的到来，静子发现自己无时无刻不被人监视。迫于无法与丈夫坦白的压力，静子只能救助于寒川.......结果却招到了恐怖的反击....

Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she
onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she
discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate,
she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love
with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of
the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious
man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza
gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...

世界級鼓藝演出團體「鬼太鼓座」是1969年由創辦人「田耕」（本名田尻耕三）帶領一群醉心傳統太鼓藝術的青年樂手，成立的音樂修行團體，並根據「立地而奔、立地而鼓、立地而舞」的精神宗旨，讓太鼓擊樂與奔跑、舞蹈等肉體鍛鍊融為一體，成為貫徹物我合一的極限演出形式。氣吞山河的鬼太鼓座也使用竹笛、三味線、尺八、箏等婉轉幽遠的日式傳統樂器共奏，藉以達到陰陽調和，剛柔並濟的太極之境…