Summaries

A small village gets raided by bandits every harvest season. The villagers can't take it anymore, and decide to recruit samurais to defend them in exchange for rice. Will the villagers find who would defend them from the bandits?

Set in an alternate feudal Japan where mechas and giant airships are a common thing for humans to see. With in this time period is a small village that gets raided by bandits during every harvest season. The villagers can't take it anymore, so they decided to send out some volunteers to the city to recruit some samurai to help defend their land. In exchange for defense, the samurai that get hired for the job will receive rice for free of charge. Since the village is too poor to offer any money, the only samurai who would accept their proposal would be the kind who are down on their luck. Will the villagers find any samurai who would help free them from being robbed by bandits?—J LeGault

Details

Keywords
  • anime animation
  • mature animation
  • for grown ups animation
  • number in series title
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Genres
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Sci-Fi
  • Animation
Release date Jun 11, 2004
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-PG
Countries of origin United States Japan
Official sites FUNimation Gonzo
Language English Japanese
Production companies Kurosawa Production Co. G.D.H. Gonzo Digimation

Box office

Budget $32500000

Tech specs

Runtime
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

Synopsis

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