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During the Boshin War in 1868, as the shogunate tried to fight off the inevitable rise of the Empire, a diverse group of convicts were conscripted and assigned to help defend a key fort from the Imperial Army. Their search for mutual trust and personal redemption fuel this gloriously old-school samurai epic, realized from a shelved-in-the-'60s script by Kazuo Kasahara; Takayuki Yamada, Taiga Nakano, Riho Sayashi, Takara Sakumoto, Ukon Onoe star. 155 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese; Subtitles; English. In Japanese with English subtitles.

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Cult director Takashi Mike (ICHI THE KILLER, AUDITION) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a wartorn future.

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During the Boshin War in 1868, as the shogunate tried to fight off the inevitable rise of the Empire, a diverse group of convicts were conscripted and assigned to help defend a key fort from the Imperial Army. Their search for mutual trust and personal redemption fuel this gloriously old-school samurai epic, realized from a shelved-in-the-'60s script by Kazuo Kasahara; Takayuki Yamada, Taiga Nakano, Riho Sayashi, Takara Sakumoto, Ukon Onoe star. 155 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese; Subtitles; English. In Japanese with English subtitles.