# Ryo (2013)

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**Original title**: *龍-RYO-*
**Runtime**: 26 min
**Genres**: Animation
**Directed by**: Koichi Chigira
**Written by**: Koichi Chigira, Junichi Takaoka
**Starring**: Aoi Yuuki, Ai Kayano, Keiji Fujiwara, Shinya Takahashi, Takanori Nishikawa, Toshiyuki Morikawa

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: outsider, tender

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