The Tokugawa shogunate fell and Japan entered an enlightened democratic era. However, during the Meiji period, corruption and greed still existed in the government, the army and even the merchants. When the blood tax riot broke out in Meiji eight years, primary school teacher Masaaki Oshima (Masaaki Otaka) was attacked by riot farmers on his way to travel with his family. Kagoshima and his son Siro (Shinichi Ueda) were killed, and his wife, Xiaoya (Akita Miyoko), was violated by the mob. After that, Xiao Ye saw the time to kill a thug. After going to prison, she had an affair with prison guards and officials, tried every means to give birth to a daughter, named Xueji, and handed over the mission of revenge for the family to her daughter. Cellmates sympathize with the experience of Xiao Ye and try their best to entrust Xueji to the monk minister Dao Hai (Huang Nishimura) who is highly skilled in martial arts. Twenty years later, Xiu Luo Xueji, who is burdened with great hatred, came to the world with blood and blood. The film is based on the original comic books of Kazuo Koike (comic script) and Kazuo Uamura (painter), and the theme song is later used by Quentin Tarantino in "Kill Bill".