The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), attempts to rid a haunted castle of spooks.

A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The young tanuki telephones his father, and they join forces against the samurai.

Animation by Yuki Maeda. Music by Tsubasa Handa.

Early Japanese animation featuring a dancing tanuki (a Japanese raccoon dog).

A baseball game between the rabbits and tanuki (raccoon dogs).