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Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts joins the Band and the relationship between the two men begins to blossom, Casca, the tough, lone swordswoman in the Band of the Hawk, struggles to accept Guts and the influence he has on the world around her. While the two men begin to fight together, Griffith continues to rise to power, all seemingly in order to reach his mysterious, prophesied goals. What lengths will Guts and Griffith go to in order to reach these goals, and where will fate take the two men?
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Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts joins the Band and the relationship between the two men begins to blossom, Casca, the tough, lone swordswoman in the Band of the Hawk, struggles to accept Guts and the influence he has on the world around her. While the two men begin to fight together, Griffith continues to rise to power, all seemingly in order to reach his mysterious, prophesied goals. What lengths will Guts and Griffith go to in order to reach these goals, and where will fate take the two men?
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Genre:Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Horror
Written By:Ichiro Okouchi
In Theaters:11/13/2012
Box Office:$2,152,610
Runtime:76 minutes
Studio:Beyond C., Graphinica, STUDIO4℃, Warner Bros. Japan
Cast
Toshiyuki Kubooka
Director
Hiroaki Iwanaga
Guts (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Griffith (voice)
Yuki Kaji
Judeau (voice)
Takahiro Fujiwara
Pippin (voice)
Toa Yukinari
Casca (voice)
Yoshiro Matsumoto
Corkus (voice)
Minako Kotobuki
Rickert (voice)
Kazuki Yao
Gaston (voice)
Aki Toyosaki
Charlotte (voice)
Kenta Miyake
Nosferatu Zodd (voice)
Nobuyuki Katsube
Midland King (voice)
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