Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.
- samurai
- swordplay
- espionage
- human animal relationship
- swordsman
- dog
- sengoku period
- feudal japan
- anime
- adventure
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tomoya Nagase
Nameless 'Nanashi' (voice)
Yuri Chinen
Kotaro (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Luo-Lang (voice)
Akio Otsuka
Shogen Itadori (voice)
- Unsho Ishizuka — Lord Akaike (voice)
- Mamoru Miyano — Jurota (voice)
- Maaya Sakamoto — Hagihime (voice)
- Jun Hazumi — Zekkai (voice)
- Tomoyuki Shimura — Isogai (voice)
- Takurou Kitagawa — Fuchinobe (voice)
- Atsushi Ii — Master Bai-Luan (voice)
- Hirofumi Nojima — Feng-Wu (voice)
- Masaki Aizawa — Yue-Shen (voice)
- Fumie Mizusawa — Mu-Mao (voice)
- Junko Minagawa — Mu-You (voice)
- Directed
- Masahiro Ando
- Written
- Fumihiko Takayama
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 479 ratings
- Studio
- BONES
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