Which incident in 18th century Japan that involved a group of revenge-seeking leaderless samurai has been dramatized in several accounts and was called the country's 'national legend'?
Forty-seven rōnin Forty-seven rōnin The revenge of the , also known as the or "Akō vendetta", is an 18th-century historical event in Japan in which a band of "rōnin" (leaderless samurai) avenged the death of their master. The incident has since become legendary. The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming "rōnin") after their "daimyō" (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to perform "seppuku" (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was "Kōzuke no suke". After waiting and planning for a year, the "rōnin" avenged their master's honor by killing Kira. In
Legend of the Eight Samurai of the music was released by Eastworld, product id WTP-90258. "Legend of the Eight Samurai" was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1984, earning ¥2.3 billion in distribution income. Various English releases have been sold since the 1980s under the title "Legend of the Eight Samurai", or "Legend of Eight Samurai". An English dubbed version was released with some script modifications; and in 2005 an uncut, English subtitled version of the film was released. In 2012 the film was released on Blu-ray in Japan as part of the "Kadokawa Blu-ray Collection". On May 5, 2005, Digiview