
Katanagatari
2010, Series, 50 min, Action, Adventure, Animation, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 69
The legendary swordsmith Kiki Shikizaki created 1,000 swords in his career. The more of the swords a country owns, the higher its chances are at winning a war. When the shogun emerged victorious, he collected 988 swords, but these were merely the “practice pieces”. The last twelve swords were the crowning achievements of Kiki’s career. Each one of them is so powerful that a single man could defeat an army with it. Togame, the shogun’s strategist, gets the order to collect these swords. At first she hired a ninja, but each of the swords’ value is so high that the entire ninja clan went rogue once they got hold of one. She then put her trust in another warrior, but he kept the sword for himself. Her final hope now is Shichika, the seventh and last student of the Kyotoryuu School.
Directed by Keitarô Motonaga, Tomoki Kobayashi, Shinji Satô, Makoto Sokuza, Motoki Tanaka
Cast
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Shichika Yasuri
- Yukari Tamura as Togame
- Masako Ikeda as Narrator
- Haruka Tomatsu as Princess Hitei
- Rikiya Koyama as Emonzaemon Sôda
- Ryotaro Okiayu as Hôô Maniwa
- Ryô Hirohashi as Pengin Maniwa
- Mai Nakahara as Nanami Yasuri
- Toru Okawa as Mutsue Yasuri
- Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Takahito Hida
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