AKA Ansatsu.
"What kind of man swings so easily from Emperor to Shogun?"
Its 1853 and the arrival of American ships breaking Japans traditional isolation throwns Japan into political turmoil. Hachiro Kiyokawa (Tetsurô Tanba) is an ambitious ronin who tries to use this tumult to further his own ends and shifts between political factions attempting to prevent the outbreak of civil war.
A strongly nihilistic film, exploring the concepts of honour, betrayal and how the previously honourable samurai have decended into political assassins.
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