Searching for Sen no Rikyu

One day in April at the end of the 16th century, in Kyoto under heavy rain, in an inconspicuous mansion, the life of a generation of celebrities was coming to an end. The owner of the house is the world-respected tea ceremony master Sen no Rikyu (played by Ichikawa Ebizo). Looking back on that year, he was appreciated by Oda Nobunaga (played by Iseya Yusuke) during the Warring States Period, and used his influence to save Hashiba Hideyoshi (played by Omori Nanto) who was hanging by a thread. The heroic hegemony disappeared, and Hideyoshi became a new generation of heroes, but he gradually became dissatisfied with Rikyu's uncompromising pursuit of beauty and indifference to power. The rift between the two people, who should not have crossed paths, is getting wider and wider, which seems to have doomed Rikyu's tragedy. Life is about to pass away. Accompanied and questioned by his wife Zong En (played by Miki Nakatani), Rikyu recalls the past years and the love affair in his youth that was unforgettable and influenced his destiny...