Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
