47 Ronin (2013 film)
47 Ronin is a 2013 American 3D adventure drama fantasy action film depicting a fictional account of the fortyseven Ronin, a reallife group of masterless samurai in 18thcentury Japan who avenged the death of their lord, in the style of Chshingura. Produced by Universal Studios, the film was directed by Carl Rinsch and stars Keanu Reeves and Hiroyuki Sanada.
In late medieval Japan, Kai Keanu Reeves is a halfJapanese, halfEnglish outcast who lives in the Ak Domain, which is ruled by the benevolent Lord Asano Naganori. When Kai was young, Asano found him lost in the forest and accepted him into his household. Kai and Asanos daughter, Mika, eventually fall in love despite Kai being scorned by her fathers samurai due to his lowborn status and mixed ancestry.Before a planned visit from Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Asano is visited by the Shoguns master of ceremonies, Lord Kira, who wants to take Ak for himself. Kira enlists the help of a shapeshifting Kitsune named Witch who sends a Kirin to kill Asano in the forest of Ako. Asanos samurai struggle in their battle with the monster so Kai joins in riding an abandoned horse. As the monster charges him, Kai recovers a lost sword that he uses to slay it. Shortly thereafter he spots a white fox with different coloured eyes watching from the underbrushWitch in her fox form. Later during the Shoguns visit, Kai sees that one of the Shoguns concubines has the same multicolored eyes, leading him to assume that she is the fox from the forest. He tries to warn Asanos principal counselor and samurai, Oishi, that she is a witch but Oishi doesnt believe him. ........
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