Noriko Hayase, a film magazine reporter, and Geoffrey York, an American newspaper reporter, interviews people about on how Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa was dismissed from Darryl F. Zanuck's film "Tora, Tora, Tora!" Through the testimonies of many people involved, this work reveals the truth behind the director's departure from the Japan-US co-production "Tora, Tora, Tora" and the life of the world-famous master. Note: Won the Excellence Prize in the manga division at the Japanese Ministry of Culture's Media Arts Festival in 2001.

In Meiji Era Japan (1884), art scholars Ernest Fenellosa and Okakura Tenshin opened a sealed temple that had been built 1200 years before. Inside, they found many swords and a bodhisattva statue wrapped in cloth. Why was this temple sealed in the first place? The truth lies back in the Asuka Period (645), at a time when there is political tension concerning the power of the Soga clan. Prince Naka no Oe is beginning to set a plot in action against the main branch of the Soga family, targeting Soga no Iruka.