The Dagger of Kamui

Synopsis

After discovering his mother and sister murdered in their home, a young boy named Jiro is falsely accused of the crime and forced to flee his village. There, he encounters a priest named Tenkai who orders him to kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. Upon completing this task, Jiro undergoes rigorous training to become a master assassin. Years later, he learns he was an orphan and that his true father was Tarouza, a former subordinate of Tenkai who abandoned his mission after falling in love with an Ainu woman. Jiro soon uncovers a plot by the Shogunate to retrieve the lost treasure of Captain Kidd and use it to isolate Japan from the rest of the world once again. Armed with clues Tarouza kept secret, Jiro, accompanied by the female ninja Oyuki and a slave named Sam, travels to Russia and America to hunt for the treasure, hoping to use it to exact revenge on Tenkai.