SWORD OF THE STRANGER

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• Release Year: 2007
• Genre: Anime
• Plot: What qualifies a man as good or evil? Is it the amount of political power one attains, the quality of his swordmanship 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!
• Cast: Tomoya Nagase, Yuri Chinen, Kôichi Yamadera, Akio Ôtsuka, Unshô Ishizuka, Mamoru Miyano, Maaya Sakamoto, Jun Hasumi, Tomoyuki Shimura, Takurô Kitagawa, Atsushi Ii, Hirofumi Nojima, Masaki Aizawa, Fumie Mizusawa, Junko Minagawa, Kôhei Fukuhara, Katsuhisa Hôki, Cho, Ai Orikasa, Keiko Tsukamoto, Makoto Yasumura, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Yûki Masuda, Noboru Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Shirokuma, Kenichi Mochizuki, Shinya Fukumatsu, Toshihiro Okubo, Katsunori Kobayashi, Miyu Matsuki, Naoto Takenaka, Alistair Abell, Michael Adamthwaite, Eisuke Asakura, Trevor Devall, Brian Dobson, Paul Dobson, Aidan Drummond, Brian Drummond, Simon Hayama, Maryke Hendrikse, Hiroshi Iida, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Hiro Kanagawa, Andrew Kavadas, Ken Kramer, Keiichi Kuwabara, Daisuke Matsubara, Kohei Matsumoto, Scott McNeil, Hirokazu Miyahara, Richard Newman, Hiroshi Okamoto, Katsuhiro Ota, John Payne, Kyle Rideout, Takashi Saito, Tabitha St. Germain, Bari Suzuki, Ryôta Takeuchi, Kensuke Tamura, Kazutada Tanaka, Isao Teramoto, Cathy Weseluck, Yasuhiro Yoshimoto, Fumihiko Takayama
• Director: Masahiro Andô
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Bandai
• Media Format: Movie