Ryu -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 Ryu -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.

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