Sword of the Stranger | Anime Movie 2007

Other titles: Stranger: Mukou Hadan Synopsis: With the fall of the second shogunate Japan has sunk into a state of disarray historians now call the Sengoku period, or the era of Warring States. A ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotarou, his dog, and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Is it the amount of political power one attains, the quality of his swordsmanship, or how well he serves his lord?