Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.

Keywords: swordplay, samurai, human-animal-relationship, swordsman, espionage, dog, sengoku-period, feudal-japan,

Title: Sword of the Stranger
Imdb rate: 7.8
Imdb votes: 13,075
Year: 2007
Language: Japanese, Mandarin
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Director: Masahiro Andô
Writers: Fumihiko Takayama
Actors:
Tomoya Nagase
Yuri Chinen
Kôichi Yamadera
Akio Ôtsuka

Awards: 1 nomination.