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BBFC RatingJapan Foundation: Sword of the Stranger

Certificate15
Year2007
Director(s)Masahiro Andô
LanguageJapanese
CountryJapan
Running Time1HR 42MINS
SeasonThe Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024

In this breathtaking anime set in feudal-era Japan, young Kotaro is pursued by the royal army of China’s Ming Dynasty. When his loyal dog Tobimaru is injured in an ambush, Kotaru reluctantly recruits a mysterious, nameless samurai as his bodyguard. However, “No-name” has a guilty past and his own inner demons to battle. A classic animation featuring stunningly animated fight scenes.

With diverse cinematic voices, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2018 features some of the best examples of cinema from Japan and will look at how the country’s filmmakers have been drawn to portraying the “(un)true” colours of human nature. The twists and turns of life portrayed in the programme are at times heart-rending, at other times hilarious, but always enthralling.


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