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Snow on The Blades

Snow on The Blades

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 20, 2014

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

History, Action, Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

柘榴坂の仇討

Production Companies

Shochiku

Director

Setsurô Wakamatsu

Description

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?