<i>This article has been corrected. See below.</i> — In “47 Ronin,” Keanu Reeves portrays the leader of a band of ronin — masterless samurai in 18th-century Japan who must suffer the indignity of ...

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their ...

In Japanese folklore, few stories are more sacred than the story of the 47 Ronin. Despite this, Universal had high hopes for significant overseas revenues in order to justify the films burgeoning ...

The tale of the 47 ronin is the Japanese equivalent of the 300 Spartans against the Persian invaders, or Lapu Lapu’s last stand against the Spanish (maybe even Tirad Pass, if we stretch it); it’s a ...