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 ...
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 ...
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 ...