This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Ichikawa Ebijuro stars in this kaibyo story concerning a ghost-cat named Akakabe Daimyojin, which would be re-filmed in 1938. The story may derive from a version of the bakeneko legend of Saga, in which the ghost-cat was deified as a daimyojin ("powerful entity").