Masaki Kato

Dans le Japon médiéval, Ichi est une jeune orpheline, aveugle de naissance, qui gagne sa vie en jouant de la musique de village en village. Mais derrière ses airs fragiles se cache un tempérament guerrier. La jeune fille possède notamment un talent exceptionnel dans l’art de manier le sabre, arme qu’elle dissimule dans son bâton de marche.

Tetsu Umekawa is a member of a motorcycle gang in Oita, who spends his time playing thinner with his delinquent friends and bullying the top students. With his natural good sense of timing, he rises through the ranks of the bikers and starts dating a beautiful girl, but this is short-lived, as one setback after another hits him. Disgusted with his hometown, Tetsu moves to Tokyo in a fit of pique. He moves in with his brother, a successful professional boxer. However, he rebels against his brother, who leads a stoic life in order to keep winning, and ends up becoming a henchman of the yakuza. Tetsu leads a lazy life, but then he learns that his brother has died during a match...

A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.