Set during the chaotic Sengoku period, this anime feature follows an anonymous swordsman who uses his fighting skills to defend a boy named Kotaru. While Chinese assassins seek to murder the child to get immortality, the titular hero opts for honor over eternal life.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Audio:
Dolby True HD 5.1 - English, Japanese
Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: Making of Featurette
Bonus Footage:
1. Pilot Film
Trailers:
1. Trailers
2. Commercials
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus

Distributor Notes: What qualifies a man as good or evil? Is it the amount of political power one attains, the quality of his swordsmanship or how well he serves his lord? With the fall of the second shogunate Japan has sunk into a state of disarray historians now call the Sengoku period, or the era of Warring States. Civil wars rage on throughout the many feudal holdings, where a man may raise his station in life simply by killing his superior. Whilst wandering this war torn country side a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotaro, his dog and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act as his bodyguard but can he truly keep Kotaro from the clutches of the Ming and their bloodthirsty blonde mercenary, Luo-Lang?

Masahiro Ando: Japanese Anime Director