Sword of the Stranger

Sep 29, 2007

1h 43m

★ 7.6

Overview

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.

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Cast

Nameless 'Nanashi' (voice)

Tomoya Nagase

Kotaro (voice)

Yuri Chinen

Luo-Lang (voice)

Koichi Yamadera

Shogen Itadori (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Lord Akaike (voice)

Unsho Ishizuka

Jurota (voice)

Mamoru Miyano

Hagihime (voice)

Maaya Sakamoto

Zekkai (voice)

Jun Hazumi

Isogai (voice)

Tomoyuki Shimura

Fuchinobe (voice)

Takurou Kitagawa

Master Bai-Luan (voice)

Atsushi Ii

Feng-Wu (voice)

Hirofumi Nojima

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