Limited-time, priced-down reissue available only until March 31, 2010 to commemorate completion of Yoji Yamada's latest film "Ototo." The film based on a best-selling novel by Shuhei Fujisawa is a multiple-award winning period film sets in the last years of Japan's Edo period where a poor Samurai named Seibei struggles to support his family. Through the climatic showdown between him and another Samurai, the film offers a fascinating glimpse into the intriguing chapter in Japan's history where the samurai way started to collapse under the weight of Westernization.