# Kai doh maru (2001)

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**Original title**: *怪童丸*
**Runtime**: 45 min
**Genres**: Animation, Action, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Kanji Wakabayashi
**Written by**: Nobuhisa Terado
**Starring**: Mitsuki Saiga, Showtaro Morikubo, Fumiko Osaka, Yurika Hino, Ai Orikasa, Hikaru Hanada

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You’re raised as a boy among samurai guardians after fleeing child-killers in the mountains. Rescue and training remake you into their finest blade. Then Raiko’s love awakens Kai Doh Maru in you—just as another’s rage threatens to cut the past loose again.

Kanji Wakabayashi directs a coming-of-age pulse beneath court intrigue.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, tender

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