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==Plot== ==Plot==

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2003 film
Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler
The American DVD cover
Directed byToshiya Shinohara
Written byStory:
Rumiko Takahashi
Screenplay:
Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Produced byMichihiko Suwa
Masuo Ueda
Mikihiro Iwata
StarringKappei Yamaguchi (Japanese original),
Richard Ian Cox (2005 dub)
CinematographyHirofumi Yagi
Yūdai Takahashi
Edited byShigeyuki Yamamori
Music byKaoru Wada
Distributed byToho (Japan),
Viz
Release date2003
Running time104 min.
LanguageJapanese

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.

Plot

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The English logo used in Japan

Background

The protagonist, InuYasha is a hanyō - half-human, half-demon. His half-brother, Sesshomaru, is a yōkai, a full demon. Their father died, protecting InuYasha's human mother Izayoi from Setsuna no Takemaru, a suitor who yearned for InuYasha's mother, 200 years before the events of the original series. InuYasha's father left each of his sons a very powerful sword; the Tessaiga to InuYasha; and the Tenseiga, to Sesshomaru. The inheritance of Tenseiga rather than the more destructive Tessaiga leaves Sesshomaru bitter and he ponders why his father leaves him with the more passive of the two swords.

Synopsis

The film opens with events that happened at InuYasha's birth. The suitor Takemaru kills Izayoi just before InuYasha's father arrives. InuYasha's father, still injured from his battle with Ryūkotsusei, arrives and resurrects Izayoi, telling her to escape with their son, whom he names as InuYasha and gives her the red Fire Rat Armor to protect them from the burning palace. Presumably, InuYasha's father died with Takemaru when the entire complex crashed and burned down as the two dueled inside the palace.

In the present era, Kagome's Grandfather comes by with a sword which he calls a 'national treasure'; as Grandfather is about to put it in the storehouse for "safe keeping", Kagome's younger brother goes over to the sword, and it speaks. The sword is So'unga, the sword of hell, and it possesses a connection to InuYasha's father. 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 powers the sword holds on an evacuated village.

Sesshomaru is also alerted of the presence 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 saves the day and forces the So'unga to release InuYasha from its grasp. It finds a new demon host and recovers Sesshomaru's lost left arm, then revives Takemaru and subsequently possess him, aiming to take revenge on InuYasha and Sesshomaru.

So'unga was the third sword that InuYasha's father possessed. Individually, it was stronger than either the Tenseiga or the Tetseiga. Sesshomaru wields the Tenseiga, and InuYasha wields the Tetseiga, as they duel they managed to drop the sword into the vortex which leads to the underworld, thus closing it. At the end, Inuyasha and his brother see their father as he thanks them for discovering how to destroy the sword. After the credits, Inuyasha and Kagome both lay on a hill, and then Kagome asked 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. 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 tells Kagome to take it off, but Kagome refused to because she was afraid that Inuyasha would do perverted things again and an argue was going on and in the end, Kagome tells Inuyasha to sit very sweetly and that causes Inuyasha to fall on the ground and the screen goes black, ending the movie.

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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