Daijiro Akagi, a prodigal son who has been out of touch for three years, turns up at his father’s first anniversary memorial service and declares, ‘I’m going to buy Tsutenkaku and turn it into the Akagi family mausoleum.’ However, with no source of funds, he enlists the help of his younger brother, Kojiro—a man of cunning but little else—to raise the money. Their plan progresses steadily, but…