Kiru
Movie
斬る
1968/06/22
Character count18,425
Word count8,607
Unique words1,718
Words (1-occurrence)911
Unique kanji684
Kanji (1-occurrence)196
Difficulty beta
Hard
External Rating
70 %

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

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