An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jubee Kamata (Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jubee is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more.—Anonymous

During the Meiji Restoration of Japan, the mutilation of a prostitute in the small town of Washiro forces the once notorious, shogun samurai - Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), out of retirement. Adaptation of Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning 1992 western by the same name, 'Unforgiven' explores morality, duty and heritage in this jidaigeki (period drama) meets western.