Bushido

Juzo Matsumiya, a master swordsman, arrives in a province still scarred by a famine that struck three years prior. Dispatched by the shogunate as a mere fencing instructor, his discreet inquiries and suspicious movements quickly unsettle the local lords. Beneath the veneer of restored order fester old wounds and secrets from the lean years. His mission soon morphs into a perilous dance with the domain's power brokers, where every move is a potential death sentence and the shogunate's true intentions prove far more nebulous than they first appeared.