During the closing years of the civil war period and uneasy reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, when men high and low scramble to follow conventional propriety so that they don't attract undue notice (or death) to ...

140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, man slayer! His killer blade helped close ...

Set just before World War II: Having honed his swordsmanship to a fine art, dashing young Kumomaru leaves his native Japan to see the world and test himself against the evil forces brewing an apocalyptic wor...