During the Boshin War in 1868, as the shogunate tried to fight off the inevitable rise of the Empire, a diverse group of convicts were conscripted and assigned to help defend a key fort from the Imperial Army. Their search for mutual trust and personal redemption fuel this gloriously old-school samurai epic, realized from a shelved-in-the-'60s script by Kazuo Kasahara; Takayuki Yamada, Taiga Nakano, Riho Sayashi, Takara Sakumoto, Ukon Onoe star. 155 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese; Subtitles; English. In Japanese with English subtitles.