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.

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

Animation by Yuki Maeda. Music by Tsubasa Handa.

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