Feudal Japan - A
time of danger, intrigue and deception. Jubei is a masterless ninja who
travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold...or a
worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a
hideous plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering
ways and possibly his life.
When a small village succumbs to a terrible plague, a team of ninjas
are sent to investigate, and realize that all is not as it seems.
Ambushed, they are wiped out by a fearsome man-monster with incredible
powers, leaving only one alive - Kagero, a beautiful female ninja,
whose touch can bring instant death. Jubei saves her from a fate worse
than death, and unwittingly becomes drawn into the web of treachery. He
is soon faced with his greatest challenge, an enemy for whom death
holds no fear, with the power to destroy Jubei`s world.
After
unidentified beings known as "Blanks" start popping up, they are soon
followed by a Soul Reaper named Senna who makes them disappear. Puzzled
by these unknown beings and the even more mysterious girl, Ichigo and
Rukia set out to learn more, but uncover an evil plot when a menacing
clan tries to kidnap Senna. Banished from the Soul Society long ago,
the clan's leader is sending the World of the Living and the Soul
Society on a collision course, and Senna seems to be the key to his
diabolical plot for revenge. Can Ichigo and his fellow Soul Reapers
save the two worlds from annihilation?
Naruto Shippuuden Movie 2 is the fifth overall Naruto film and
second Naruto: Shippuuden movie. The movie was initially announced in
Weekly Shonen Jump, and shortly followed by a teaser trailer featuring
Sasuke and Naruto. In the movie a mysterious group of ninja make a
surprise attack on the Hidden Leaf Village and they are about to make
the idea of a full blown ninja war into a reality until the missing
ninja, Sasuke, decides to step in.
There have been three teaser trailers released so far. Trailer one
shows Naruto and Sasuke fighting something in the heart of darkness.
After activating his Sharingan, Sasuke sees Naruto fighting in the
darkness. They run past noticing each other as Naruto looks back
surprised to see Sasuke. The second teaser shows Naruto and Sasuke are
fighting each other, until a Flying Stone Fortress attacks them, in
which case they divert their attention to it with Sasuke using his
sword with Chidori and Naruto using Rasengan. The third teaser reveals
a group of mysterious flying ninja attacking the Leaf Village. Everyone
is trying to defend the village. As Sakura and Naruto think about
Sasuke, it seems as if Sasuke hears their thoughts and steps up to
defend the village. Then like trailer 2, Naruto and Sasuke run towards
the Stone Fortress with Sasuke using Chidori and Naruto using Rasengan
The movie begins in Sannomiya Station,
and shows the second main character: Seita, dying from starvation there
in rags. A janitor comes and digs through his things, and finds a candy
tin, containing Setsuko's ashes. He throws it out, and from there
springs the spirit of Setsuko, Seita and a group of fireflies. The two spirits provide narrative throughout the story. The film is, in effect, an extended flashback to Japan, at the end of World War II
during the Kobe firebombings. Setsuko and Seita, the two siblings, are
left to secure the house and their belongings, allowing their mother,
suffering from a heart complaint to proceed to a bomb shelter. They are
caught off-guard by a batch of bombs dropped in their vicinity,
although they survive unscathed. Their mother, however, is caught in
the air raid and dies from burn wounds. Having nowhere else to go,
Setsuko and Seita go to live with their aunt, and write letters to
their father. On the second day that they stay there, Seita goes out to
get the left over supplies which he had buried in the ground to
preserve before the bombing which killed their mother. He gives all of
it to his aunt, but hides a small tin of fruit drops. This tin of fruit
drops later proves a recurrent icon in the film. Following cruelty from
their aunt, who gives them barely enough food, insults them and sells
their mother's kimonos for rice, which she keeps for herself, Seita and
Setsuko finally decide to go and live in an old, abandoned bomb
shelter. Gradually, they begin to run out of rice, and Seita is forced
to steal food from local farmers. When Seita is eventually caught
stealing, he is unable to feed Setsuko enough before she begins to
starve. In desperation, Seita removes all the money from their mother's
bank account, when he learns of his father's death. He buys a large
quantity of food, and rushes back to the shelter, where he finds
Setsuko hallucinating. She is sucking marbles which she believes are
fruit drops and offers him 'rice balls' which are really only rocks.
Finally, she dies of starvation. Seita cremates her, using supplies
donated to him by a farmer and leaves her ashes in the fruit tin, which
he carries with his father's photograph, until his death on September 21, 1945.
At the end of the film, the spirits of Seita and Setsuko are seen—no
longer raggedy and etiolated but healthy and well-dressed—sitting side
by side as they look down on the modern-day city of Kobe.
Four years have passed since the events of the first series. With Pai mysteriously missing, Yakumo has trained himself into a competent demon fighting warrior as he searches for her. When he finally finds her, living quietly as an average high school student in Tokyo, he's shocked to find that she has no memory of who or what she is. Almost as shocked as she is to have a stranger who for all intents and purposes looks like a wandering lunatic insist his life has been devoted to finding her! But not as shocked as either will be when the forces of darkness bear down on them, and leave them with no choice but to seek out a way to finally end the war that begun hundreds of years earlier, a journey that will take them into the wilds of Tibet and across the paths of treasure seekers, both friend and foe.
