While hunting in the forest, Lord Asano of Ako and his samurai find a young half-breed and take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Nagato, and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira’s evil plot, the samurais and the half-breed sets out for revenge against the Shogun’s order.
Release Date: 25 December 2013Runtime: 128 min
Stars:
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- Hiroshi Sogabe
- Hiroshi Yamada
- Hiroyuki Sanada
- Jin Akanishi
- Keanu Reeves
- Ko Shibasaki
- Masayoshi Haneda
- Min Tanaka
- Natsuki Kunimoto
- Neil Fingleton
- Rinko Kikuchi
- Shû Nakajima
- Tadanobu Asano
- Takato Yonemoto
Director: Carl Rinsch
