InuYasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler

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InuYasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler

The American DVD cover
Directed by Toshiya Shinohara
Produced by Michihiko Suwa
Masuo Ueda
Mikihiro Iwata
Written by Story:
Rumiko Takahashi
Screenplay:
Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Starring Kappei Yamaguchi (Japan)
Richard Ian Cox (USA)
Music by Kaoru Wada
Cinematography Hirofumi Yagi
Yūdai Takahashi
Editing by Shigeyuki Yamamori
Distributed by Toho (Japan),
Viz Media
Release date(s) December 20, 2003 (2003-12-20)
Running time 100 min.
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Budget US$ 30 million

InuYasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (映画犬夜叉 天下覇道の剣 Eiga Inuyasha: Tenka Hadō no Ken?) also known as InuYasha the Movie: Swords of World Conquest) is a 2003 anime film directed by Toshiya Shinohara and written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa. It is the third film to be released in the InuYasha films series. It was released in Japan on December 20, 2003 (between episodes 136 and 137), and in the United States on September 6, 2005. It premiered on Adult Swim on August 12, 2006 and it aired in Canada on YTV on December 29, 2006.

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[edit] Plot

The film opens with events that happened at InuYasha's birth. The suitor Takemaru kills Lady Izayoi just before InuYasha's father arrives. InuYasha's father, still injured from his battle with Ryūkotsusei, arrives and resurrects Izayoi with the Tenseiga, telling her to escape with their son, whom he names as InuYasha and gives her the Cloth of the Fire Rat to protect them from the burning palace. InuYasha's father dies in the burning down of the castle as he moves to face Takemaru and draws his third sword.

In the present era, Kagome's grandfather comes by with a sword which he calls a "national treasure"; as Grandpa is about to put it in the storehouse for "safe keeping", Kagome's younger brother goes over to the sword, and it speaks, or more accurately, the spirit of the sheath, Saiya. With his seven hundred year spell on the sword So'unga failing, Saiya seeks out InuYasha, hoping he has the willpower to control the sword. Unfortunately, he was mistaken, as it tried to possess InuYasha, but InuYasha tried his best to resist being controlled and finally brings the sword back to the past, but in the process unleashes the deadly Dragon Twister on an evacuated village, a technique far more powerful than the Tetsuseiga's Backlash Wave or the Tenseiga's Dragon Strike.

Sesshomaru is also alerted to the return of So'unga, and he follows the scent to find that InuYasha is in possession of the sword. The two of them duel and at a crucial moment, Kagome, having returned with Saiya, saves the day and forces the So'unga to release InuYasha from its grasp. As InuYasha and Sesshomaru depart their respective companies to seek out So'unga, Myoga, Totosai and Saiya explained that explain to everyone that in the aftermath of InuYusha's father's death two hundred years ago, they carried out his last commands for his three swords. While the Tetsuseiga and Tenseiga were taken care of, Saiya claimed that there were no instructions for how to dispose of So'unga. Unable to give it to InuYasha or Sesshomaru, Saiya decides to keep So'unga asleep for at least seven hundred years and had it thrown into the Bone Eater's Well, where it ended up in the possession of Kagome's family.

Meanwhile, So'unga finds a new demon host and recovers Sesshomaru's lost left arm from the netherworld, then revives Takemaru and subsequently possesses him, aiming to take revenge on InuYasha and Sesshomaru. Takemaru slaughters an entire castle and resurrects the living dead to wear down his enemies' strength. During the battle Kagome and Rin are kidnapped. Both of the brothers take off to protect the girls. InuYasha manages to defeat Takemaru just as Takemaru realizes InuYasha's mother wanted him to live and that he loved her. InuYasha used his human traits to defeat Takemaru.

However, the battle was far from over. So'unga creates itself a new body and opens a gateway to the netherworld, threatening to end all life on Earth. While Saiya protects the humans from being overcomed by the dead souls from the netherworld, InuYasha and Sesshomaru do battle with So'unga, both determined to defeat the sword on their own. Individually, So'unga wass stronger than either the Tenseiga or the Tetsuseiga. As they dueled they managed to combine their attacks and overwhelm So'unga's Dragon Twister, causing the sword and Sesshomaru's left arm to fall into the pit of hell. At the end, InuYasha and Sesshomaru see their father as he thanks them for destroying the sword.

After the end credits, InuYasha and Kagome both lay on a hill, and then Kagome tells InuYasha that she thought Sesshomaru didn't like people, and InuYasha replied that he didn't care at all. Meanwhile Kagome remembered something: InuYasha's enchanted beads. Kagome ordered InuYasha to sit up and close his eyes, and told him that she had a nice surprise for him. While his eyes were closed, Kagome placed his enchanted beads around his neck. Suddenly InuYasha realised that the "nice" surprise was actually the enchanted beads. InuYasha told Kagome to take them off, but Kagome refused to because she didn't want InuYasha running off again. Kagome then tells InuYasha to sit very sweetly which causes InuYasha to fall on the ground and the screen goes black, ending the movie.

[edit] Cast and credits

  • Director: Toshiya Shinohara
  • Screenplay: Katsuyuki Sumizawa
  • Music: Kaoru Wada
  • Character Designs: Hideyuki Motohashi & Yoshihito Hishinuma
  • Theme Song: "Four Seasons"
Lyrics: JUSME, Music: MONK, Arrangement: MONK, Performed by: Namie Amuro

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