昭和20年，太平洋战争刚刚落下帷幕。经历了惨烈战火的日本山河寥落，百废待兴。生活在最低层的人们凭借一双勤劳的双手艰难求生。废墟上的东京，小商贩们渐渐云集，靠着他们物美价廉的美食为贫穷的手工业者提供果腹之餐，而立食师的神话也就此拉开序幕。月见之银二（吉祥寺怪人 配音）最早登场，长发飘飘宛如仙人的老者在霸王餐界打出名堂。在此之后，狐炸肉饼之阿银（兵藤真子 饰）、汉堡之阿哲（川井宪次 饰）、牛肉盖浇饭之牛五郎（川井宪次 饰）等传奇立食师相继登场，为二战后的日本发展史做出了异样的注脚…… 本片由动画导演押井守根据自己2004年出版的同名小说改编。
In the year 1524, the former Assassin Ezio Auditore retired to a villa in the countryside of Tuscany, with his wife Sofia and children Marcello and Flavia. While Ezio wrote in his study, Sofia asked him to watch Flavia while she and Marcello visit his sister Claudia. Shortly after, he left his study to tend their vineyards while Flavia played nearby the villa. In the midst of his harvest, he saw a stranger cloaked in black, talking to Flavia. Fearing the worst, Ezio hurriedly intercepted the stranger, though Flavia told him that she was no danger, as Ezio saw her necklace with the Assassin insignia...
在這眾人都會魔法的世界，魔力高低成為了衡量地位的標準，而不會使用魔法的人則會遭到處決。馬修天生不會使用魔法，被養父藏匿起來照顧。他為了自己跟家人能平安生活，決定用長年鍛煉出來的一身肌肉與世界抗衡。
