Tortured by visions of the battle at the rocky isthmus of Amakusa, swordsman Yagyuu Juubee returns to his ancestral home seeking respite from the bloody duties of a feudal retainer. Life in the village possesses a serenity ill-befitting days of armed rebellion and unholy alliance. For Juubee, the tranquility is far too transparent, and soon chilling rumors reach him: four dead…
Yamada Fuutarou
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* Based on a novel by the late Yamada Fuutarou.
The heirs to the Kouga and Iga ninja clans, Gennosuke and Oboro, hoped the unsteady truce between their tribes would last—but fate denies the lovers, thrusting their people into war after centuries of peace. The terms are set on two scrolls. One bears a list of Kouga warriors. The other holds a list of those who fight for Iga.…
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In 17th century Japan, a rebellion in the Aizu territory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty-one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge.
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From Del Rey:
By the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, ten ninja from the Iga and the Kouga clans must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun, with the surviving clan ruling for the next thousand years. But Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted…