Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

In Japan in 1614, Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa has finally brought peace to the land. Only one major loose end remains: a pair of powerful, arch-rival ninja clans based out of hidden villages, ones with warriors of such strength that they could be a threat in this new era of peace. After witnessing their power, he concocts a scheme to deal with the Koga and Iga clans: nullify a 400-year-old nonaggression pact between them and get the five top warriors on each side to fight each other under another pretense, hopefully eliminating both sides and thus his problem. Although many of their fellows are eager for the fight, the plan proves problematic for the Iga heir Oboro and Koga heir Gennosuke, who have secretly fallen in love. They are forced to choose between love and clan loyalties in a story that can only end in tragedy.

ANGEL HEART

 Samurai 7

A small village is being persecuted by robbers who return every harvest to seize the village's crops. Faced with starvation, the villagers send out a mission to find and recruit some samurai to defend them. With no pay to offer except rice, and knowing full well that only down-on-their-luck samurai would even consider accepting such an deal, the villagers can only hope that their saviours will appear before the rice is ready for harvest.

Samurai Deeper Kyo

In the year 1600, during the battle of Sekigahara, warriors Kyoshiro Mibu and "Demon Eyes" Kyo - the legendary slayer of a thousand men - engaged in fierce combat. Both men disappeared when a meteor crashed in the battlegrounds. Four years later, Kyoshiro is spotted on a rural highway, acting as a traveling medicine salesman. He is captured by the female bounty hunter Yuya Shiina when she discovers that deep inside him is the dormant personality of "Demon Eyes" Kyo himself.