Ayami Nakamura

Manji es un samurai altamente cualificado que ha sido maldecido con la inmortalidad después de una batalla legendaria. Asombrado por el brutal asesinato de su hermana, Manji sabe que sólo la lucha contra el mal recobrará su alma. Es por esto que promete ayudar a una joven llamada Rin a vengar a sus padres, quienes fueron asesinados por un grupo de maestros espadachines liderados por el despiadado guerrero Anotsu. Una misión que cambiará a Manji de maneras que nunca podría imaginar...

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.

Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, choreographers and critiques are included, but the director orchestrates an original chambara scene for the documentary.

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as though calm had been restored to the domain, but there is word that Jyuzo Matsumiya, the sword fighting instructor sent by the shogunate, is taking some suspicious actions.

Una noche, la princesa Sakura es atacada por un hombre. En ese momento, la princesa no podía ver su rostro. y solo ve un tatuaje en su cuerpo. Por eso esa noche, la princesa Sakura se enamora del hombre. Para encontrar al hombre, ella renuncia a todo y se hace el mismo tatuaje idéntico. La princesa entonces trabaja como prostituta. Mientras tanto, Gonsuke es el hombre que atacó a la princesa Sakura. También robó un pergamino y, por eso, es perseguido por asesinos.