In February, 1936, a group of junior Army officers staged an attempted coup against the Prime Minister and his government. This military drama begins with the violent coup, then jumps forward and backward as it tries to define the loyalties raging in pre-war Japan.

Japan "Yomiuri Shimbun" on July 12, 2005, exposing the 1936 "226" incident on a new secrets, long missing sacrifice officers suicide, was finally found. This happened in the events of nearly 70 years ago, is Japan unprecedented in the history of "military coup", over the years the Japanese movie, only the director Hideo Gosha once in 1989 will it on the screen. 226 event background is quite complex, probably refers to before World War II, Japanese forces struggle is quite serious, regarding political views are also different, events on the eve of, within the army mainly divided into "emperor" and "controlled". "King's road to send" that the emperor of Japan has been surrounded by "surrounding the bad guys", can not know the sufferings of the people, so you must "qingjunce", the abolition of the cabinet, so that the emperor directly become like Hitler the military dictator. Sent two political views are completely different, the purpose is to Japan for further transformation for fascist war machine state, is the spirit of the "Taisho Era" a counter.