Mugen Utamaro Ukiyo-e painter Utamaro Kitagawa is convinced by an associate to accept a commision from The Crimson Tayuu of Tourian, a courtesan who is known far and wide for her incomparable beauty. Feeling that he has captured the courtesan’s beauty and soul in his painting, he declares the portrait of her his magnum opus. She is also enthralled by it, but the painting begins to take on an unsettling mind of its own, seemingly changing with every bad deed she commits. Is she imagining it, or has she been cursed by the painter’s brush?