The Samurai I Loved (2009)

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter whos lethal with a blade yet still cant rise through the ranks of the system After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lords concubine A few years later Fuku has bore the clan lord a son When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot