Samurai I Loved / Chorus of the Cicadas / Semishigeru (2006)

Semishigeru follows the unexpectedly eventful life of the young samurai Bunshiro from his teens to full adulthood. Like many of the heroes in movies based on Shuhei Fujisawa stories, Bunshiro is on the periphery of the real action in his clan, knowing little or nothing about the politics even as he is swept up in …