A wandering samurai Matsumura Shinbei ends up looking after someone else’s baby because of an unexpe...
A wandering samurai Matsumura Shinbei ends up looking after someone else’s baby because of an unexpected turn of events. He is unusually popular and all sorts of consultations are brought to him by the people of the tenement house such as the divorce feud of the couple who cannot have children, a young girl’s scam targeting old people and the lifetime training of the unreliable male successor of a coal merchant. This alcohol loving and very skilled wandering samurai struggles to bring up the baby as he runs about to solve problems within the city.