47 Ronin 🎥 2013 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In late-medieval Japan, Kai is a teenage English-Japanese outcast found in the woods near Wakkanai and adopted by Lord Asano, the benevolent ruler of the Akō Domain. Kai and Asano’s daughter, Mika, fall in love despite the scorn her father’s samurai hold for Kai’s mixed ancestry. Lord Kira, the Shōgun’s master of ceremonies, seeks to take control of Akō with the help of Mizuki, a shapeshifting kitsune. She sends a kirin to kill Asano and his men on a hunting trip, but Kai takes up a fallen sword and slays the monster.

He sees a white fox with different-colored eyes. When the Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi visits Akō, Kai notices a concubine with the same multi-colored eyes and recognizes her as an enchantress. He tries to warn Asano’s principal counselor, Oishi, about the witch in Kira’s household but is dismissed. For the entertainment of the Shōgun, Kira arranges a duel between his best warrior, a golem, and Asano’s chosen combatant, whom Mizuki incapacitates with magic just before the contest. Kai dons his armor to fight in his stead but is unmasked during the duel, and the Shōgun orders him to be severely beaten. That night, Mizuki bewitches Asano into believing Kira is raping Mika, causing him to attack the unarmed lord.

Sentenced to death, Asano is compelled to perform seppuku to preserve his honor. The Shōgun gives Kira domain over Akō and decrees Mika must marry him but grants her one year of mourning before the wedding. The Shōgun brands Oishi and his men rōnin, forbidding them from avenging Asano. Kira has Oishi imprisoned and Kai sold into slavery. Nearly a year later, Oishi is released by his captors, who believe him now harmless. Having realized that Kira used sorcery to frame Asano, Oishi and his son Chikara reunite the scattered rōnin and rescue Kai from the fighting pits of the Dutch colony of Dejima.

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