Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors
During the war-torn feudal wars in Japan, the Awa clan faced certain extinction from a rival clan backed by demonic forces. However, a careless promise by their lord leads to both salvation and disgrace when their family dog brings back the head of the enemy warlord and insists on marrying the lord's daughter. Their unnatural union bears fruit but when both are killed, the eight unborn pups are reincarnated as the eight Dog Warriors - The Hakkenden. As they slowly find each other and come together as a group, these eight warriors, who represent the eight separate aspects of Bushido, engage in bloody battles with demonic entities and evil samurai in a final attempt to redeem their clan!
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In the 15th century, the Anzai and Satomi clans are at war. In a hopeless situation of the house of Satomi, an unbelievable promise is made: the dog Yatsufusa is to receive the princess Fuse as his wife if he brings the head of Kagetsura Anzai. After the defeat of the Anzai clan, Fuse insists that the prince keep his word. However, before her eight offspring are born, the princess chooses death. Eight beads from Fuse's prayer chain will reveal her incarnations. Years later. Eight young warriors - they all have a skin mark in the shape of a peony. Each of them possesses one of the beads. The first four dog warriors are brought together by the fate of the magical sword Murasame. It is to be handed over to its rightful owner, the ruler of Kanto ...
1.The Kaleidoscope
25-10-199030mThe year is 1457. Princess Fuse, daughter of Yoshizane Satomi, Lord of Awa province, is forced into matrimony with her dog, Yatsufusa. This situation occurs when, under siege by th...
2.Dark Music of the Gods
25-10-199030mThe year is 1458. A child is born in the village of Otsuka, in Musashi Province. His name is Shino Inuzuka. After coming of age, he is entrusted with a legendary sword, the Murasam...
3.The Futility Dance
25-12-199030mSosuke becomes an assassin after being ordered by Kamezasa to kill Shino. The two warriors, however, soon realize the extent to which fate has connected them, and make a pledge of...
4.Horyu Tower
25-12-199030mIn the midst of the disturbance in Otsuka village caused by Hamaji's disappearance, there comes the arrival of evil itself, personified by the jindai and his retainer, to whom the...
5.Demon's Melody
25-03-199130mOne day, in the town of Gyotoku, in the province of Shimousa, an innkeeper named Kobungo Inuta rescues two men while fishing on the Tone river. The men turn out to be Shino and Gen...
6.The Cicada Spirit Cry
25-03-199130mLeaving Gyotoku, the three warriors take Nui's infant son Daihachi and set off for Otsuka village. Back in Otsuka, Sosuke faces a death sentence after being charged with the murder...
7.Spirits
25-11-199330mShino, Sosuke, Genpachi, Kobungo and Dosetsu get together finally. However, Dosetsu is obesessed with revenge on Sadamasa Uesugi for his father. He attacks Uesugi in his carrier, b...
8.Taigyuro Hall
25-01-199430mHaving disguised himself as a dancing girl, Keno draws ever closer to avenging his father. But when the dark shadows of Taigyuro are drenched in blood, evil spirits unsheathe their...
9.The Legend Of The Ghost Cat
10-04-199430mDaikaku lives in his reclusive hideaway, disowned after his father was taken over by evil spirits. His sword grown dull by memories of bygone days, he has been driven to the very b...
10.Hamaji's Resurrection
10-07-199430mHamaji emerges from the spirit world enrapturing the three dog warriors, as an evil shadow creeps into their tormented souls...
11.Dog Warriors in the Netherworld
10-09-199430mWho really is this Aboshi that has joined up with the Hikitas, the enemies of the Satomi clan?! The mystery of the fateful attraction that has brought these eight dog warriors toge...
12.Aspirations of Paradise
10-11-199430mThe time has come to solve this strange mystery! Manipulated by the hand of fate, the eight warriors gather at Satomi Castle. They find, however, the figure of Hamaji in the enemy'...
13.Taking Leave of a Sullied World
25-03-199530mThe time for the final battle has come at last. Will they savour victory...or suffer defeat? And what strange fate awaits the eight dog warriors after their fight?
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