
Stranger: Mukou Hadan
Sword of the Stranger
- Score
- 7.9
- Rank
- #146
- Popularity
- #100
- Members
- 77,255
- Status
- FINISHED
- Episodes
- 1
- Type
- MOVIE
What qualifies a man as good or evil? Is it the amount of political power one attains, the quality of his swordsmanship, or how well he serves his lord? With the fall of the second shogunate Japan has sunk into a state of disarray historians now call the Sengoku period, or the era of Warring States. Civil wars rage on throughout the many feudal holdings, where a man may raise his station in life simply by killing his superior. Whilst wandering this war-torn countryside a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotarou, his dog, and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act as his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotarou from the clutches of the Ming and their bloodthirsty blonde mercenary, Luo-Lang? (Source: Bandai Entertainment)
Characters & Staff

Nanashi
MAIN · Tomoya Nagase
Kotarou
MAIN · Yuri Chinen
Luo-Lang
MAIN · Kouichi Yamadera
Tobimaru
MAIN
Jurota Inui
SUPPORTING · Mamoru Miyano
Feng-wu
SUPPORTING · Hirofumi Nojima
Shougen Itadori
SUPPORTING · Akio Ootsuka
Mu-Mao
SUPPORTING · Fumie Mizusawa
Shouan
SUPPORTING · Naoto Takenaka
Mu-You
SUPPORTING · Junko Minagawa
Zekkai
SUPPORTING · Jun Hazumi
Masahiro Andou
Director
Tsunenori Saitou
Character Design
Ungai Hara
Title Logo Design
Toshiaki Uesugi
Title Logo Design
Shigehiro Kurita
Assistance
Yoshimitsu Nebayashi
Assistance
Shuuichi Kaneko
Design Assistance
Atsushi Morikawa
Art Director
Shiho Takeuchi
Art Design
Shihoko Nakayama
Color Design
Youhei Miyahara
Director of Photography
Hiroaki Itabe
EditingRelations
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Reviews
A Brilliant Exploration of the Duality of Death
Read full reviewPure entertainment. A smorgasboard of the best swordfights ever put to animation.
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