Sword of the Stranger

About Sword of the Stranger

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.

Sword of the Stranger is a 2007 animation history film directed by Masahiro Ando. Tomoya Nagase takes the lead as Nameless 'Nanashi' (voice), Yuri Chinen as Kotaro (voice), Koichi Yamadera as Luo-Lang (voice), and Akio Otsuka as Shogen Itadori (voice).

It runs 103 minutes and was released in September 2007. Written by Fumihiko Takayama. It was produced by BONES.

Members will find espionage, adventure, samurai, and human animal relationship in it. In the United States it streams on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 495 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.

Samurai Warriors: Legend of the Sanada, The Cat Returns, and Yojimbo make useful companions to Sword of the Stranger, all filed under sengoku period and swordplay.