Ryo

Star Wars meets The Last Samurai. A boy orphaned by foreign warships becomes the sword arm of a revolutionary in late Edo Japan. Wakabayashi’s fluid animation sells the unlikely friendship.

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Koichi Chigira directed Ryo in 2013. See Koichi Chigira's full filmography, where to start with Koichi Chigira, or where to go after you've seen everything by Koichi Chigira.

Ryo was released in 2013 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 26 minutes.