This movie was sets in the 18th century where Shogun ruled Japan. In the land of Ako, a prosperous province, ruled by the Asano clan with his only child, Mika. They saved a half breed child, Kai, and Kai felt owe the Asano clan his life and swore to protect them in any way.
Since Ako is a prosperous land, there other lords whose intent to take Ako from the Asano clan. So, Lord Kira helped by a witch planned to take over Ako and become the ruler in the whole Japan.
The story goes, where finally lord Asano committed sepukku or we known as harakiri and left her daughter alone and forced by the current Shogun to married Lord Kira. All of the Asano samurais where shattered, and Oishi as the leader of the samurais were dumped to a pit for a year. After Oishi left the pit, he gathered all the samurai, including Kai for his skills and also his knowledge of witch craft. They sneak in to lord Kira's castle and the battle with lord Kira won by Oishi. The good finally won, and the bad loose.
I must warn you, that this is not a happy ending movie. The set looks like Japan, but somehow I can't feel the japan aura along the movie, I don't really know what's missing since I've never been to Japan. Keanu Reeves plays his role very well, as a samurai his act is undeniably marvelous. Hate the ending very much, but I guess it's OK. Seen the score in imdb.com and they give 6,8 /10 for this movie, and I guess I will also give this movie 3/5, since it's just an OK movie, really below my expectation.
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