DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Sword of the stranger / producer, Masahiko Minami ; director, Masahiro Ando ; English adaptation produced by Bandai Entertainment Inc. in association with Ocean Productions Inc.

[Flower Mound, Texas] : Funimation, [2016].

1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Whilst wandering war torn country during the Sengoku period, 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 his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotaro from the clutches of the Ming and their bloodthirsty blonde mercenary, Luo-Lang?

TV-MA.

Samurai -- Drama.

Immortality -- Drama.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Animated films.

Action and adventure films.

Ando, Masahiro, 1967-

Minami, Masahiko, 1961-

Takayama, Fumihiko, 1958-

Nagase, Tomoya.

Chinen, Yuri.

Yamadera, Kochi, 1961-

Otsuka, Akio, 1959 November 24-

Bones (Firm)

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Extras: production report, interviews, pilot film, battle animatic, trailers, TV commercials (79 min.)

Original story by Bones ; script Fumihiko Takayama ; director of photography, Yohei Miyahara ; chief animator, Yoshiyuki Ito ; music, Naoki Sato ; editor, Hiroaki Itabe.

Tomoya Nagase, Yuri Chinen, Kohichi Yamadera, Akio Otsuka.

DVD; 16:9; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English and Japanese audio with optional English subtitles.

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