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Official submission of Japan for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 76th Academy Awards in 2004.

This film is an example of a chanbara (sword-fighting) film and is part of the jidai-geki (period drama) genre.

The two swords carried by samurai are the long and curved katana, and the shorter wagazashi

Honour and shame were hugely important to the samurai within the film. This is because of the rigid Bushido code which samurai lived by.