When song-and-dance man Harry Van returns from World War I, he finds work hard to come by. His greatest success comes as straight man in a phony vaudeville mind-reading act with the tipsy Madame Zulieka. While on tour in Omaha he meets acrobat Irene Fellara, and they have a brief romance. Twenty years later while Harry is on tour in Europe with a troupe of leggy blonde dancers,...。电影以1876年-1877年中的西南战争和明治维新作为背景,描述一个前美国军人,到日本助明治新政而组建的日本新军做教官,在战争途中被俘,慢慢被日本传统文化所吸引。。