Revenge is a dish best served cold!

On the eve of the Meiji restoration, as a slumbering Japan awakens and turns its eyes westward, an innkeeper finds a baby named Jiro in a drifting boat; his only companion a glittering blade, the Dagger of Kamui. When Jiro is thirteen, his adoptive family is murdered and Jiro is blamed, only to be rescued by Tenkai, a priest, who trains him in the mysterious arts of the Ninja. Seeking revenge for the loss of his adoptive family, Jiro kills the mysterious one-armed Ninja who reportedly slew them. 

Years later, acting on a tip from Tenkai, Jiro tracks down his real mother, only to learn that Tenkai had tasked his father with finding a clue to the lost treasure of Captain Kidd. With the treasure in hand, the Shogun will be able to retain control, and Japan will once again isolate itself from the world. However, his father fell in love, abandoned the search, and had a child -- and for this failure, Tenkai exacted a terrible revenge! 

Now the chase begins, as Jiro, with only the Dagger of Kamui to help him, searches for the great treasure, a search that will take him all the way to the American Old West, with Tenkai's minions always close behind. 

If Jiro can find the treasure and return to Japan, then, perhaps, Jiro can exact his revenge, and thrust the Dagger of Kamui into Tenkai's black heart!

• Directed by Rintaro (Galaxy Express 999, Metropolis).

• Starring Hiroyuki Sanada (“The Ring”, “The Last Samurai”, and most recently, the Emmy-winning “Shōgun”) as the voice of Jiro, Ishida Gentarō (“Akira”, “Castle of Cagliostro”, “Arcadia of My Youth”) as Tenkai, and Koyama Mami (“Riding Bean”, “Sailor Moon”) as Oyuki.

Confirmed Contents (Basic Blu-ray)

Our deluxe limited-edition BD50 Blu-ray includes:

• HD transfer of the original film.

• English subtitles, SDH subtitles and captions.

• Color and line art galleries.

• A brand-new full-length commentary track featuring Rintaro himself discussing the film with renowned anime historian Haraguchi Masahiro!

• Names of all the backers will be listed on the disc.

• Reversible cover slip; can be configured between traditional and graphics-heavy presentation.

• As with all our Blu-rays, the disc will not be region-locked.

In addition, we will be producing a full-size 8.5x11" artbook, and may well be our biggest one yet. In addition to all the color art and settei, it'll have all the storyboards and more. This will be a softcover artbook, but if the quantities ordered give us enough economies of scale, we'll automatically upgrade it to hardcover.

Finally, in addition to all of this, we will publish a digital archive of additional production materials, including timing sheets, scripts, camera instructions, press clippings, research notes, and more -- well over 1000 pages of materials -- a big shout-out to Kadokawa for not only preserving this material but scanning it all for us!

Please note: this is a limited-edition PREORDER. We expect to ship around June 2025. There will be only one pressing and it may go out of print shortly after the initial shipments are made.

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