This is basically a short movie, based upon the famed Japanese Novel of Otogi, which is based upon a group of five. the most famed is Minamoto Raikoh.
The storyline is set in the Late Heian Period in the old Capital of HeianKyo, during this time, Kintarou (Kintoki) is being hunted down to be killed by his uncle who wanted to be the heir of his estate, but luckyly he is saved by Raikoh and his friends and taken to the capital to act as a night patrol who guarded the city's safety and peace. But a weird occurence appears, when one night, she within a group of 3 discover a suspicious caravan leaving an estate, they go to investigate only to be attacked by the driver, and disappears in the night fog. However to their suprise, it was the begining of a new rebellion by a occult group, who have begun destroying the capital.
The story is really odd and maybe too weird, since it is really short, its value for money isn't really worth it, but I still enjoyed it nevertheless, since near the end the action wasn't all that bad, and the art wasn't all the bad, but the lengthen and complexity of this story was probably want spoilt it for me.
The dvd features of two audio, english and japanese, along with a list of european subitiles plus english, along with dvd trailers and other trailers, and a explaination of the story in writting and character art.
But even with all this overall as the story got more complicated the more I lost my enjoyment for it.
But overall it was satisfactory, since I found myself rewatching the fight scenes over and over again.
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