A rōnin (浪人?) or rounin was a Bushi with no lord or master during the feudal period (1185–1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless from the death or fall of his master, or after the loss of his master's favor or privilege.
In modern usage, the term is also applied to describe a salaryman who is "between employers" or a secondary school graduate who has not yet been admitted to university.
The word rōnin means "wave man". The term originated in the Nara and Heian periods, when it referred to a serf who had fled or deserted his master's land. It then came to be used for a samurai who had lost his master. (Hence, the term "wave man" illustrating one who is socially adrift.)
According to the Bushido Shoshinshu (the Code of the Samurai), a samurai was supposed to commit oibara seppuku (also "hara kiri" – ritual suicide) upon the loss of his master. One who chose not to honor the code was "on his own" and was meant to suffer great shame. The undesirability of rōnin status was mainly a discrimination imposed by other samurai and by the daimyo (the feudal lords).
Keanu Charles Reeves ( /keɪˈɑːnuː/ kay-AH-noo; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian film actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his role in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure as well as Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix. He has worked under major directors, such as Stephen Frears (in the 1988 period drama Dangerous Liaisons); Gus Van Sant (in the 1991 independent film My Own Private Idaho); and Bernardo Bertolucci (in the 1993 film Little Buddha). Referring to his 1991 film releases, The New York Times’ critic, Janet Maslin, praised Reeves’ versatility, saying that he “displays considerable discipline and range. He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles.” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.
In addition to his film roles, Reeves has also performed in theatre. His performance in the title role in a Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet was praised by Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times, who declared Reeves " … one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet."[citation needed] On January 31, 2005, Reeves received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Ronin is a retired member of The Legion, a hit squad responsible for the extinction of the Dropas, an alien race that migrated to Earth centuries before from their dying planet. The Dropas brought with them advances in genetic technology and The Virus. A deadly airborne contagion that spread from the spores of their adaptive cocoons. The Premier of the American Union formed a covert government agency to deal with the outbreak. The Legion's mission was simple, eradicate the Dropa threat - they did. A decade later, Ronin is forced out of retirement to hunt a renegade Dropa intent on killing the remaining members of The Legion. Ronin's investigation leads him to his former comrades and one step closer to finding the Dropa who holds a secret that will shake the foundation of his beliefs, the truth about The Legion, the Dropas and himself. This ambitious, enigmatic and complex story is an epic futuristic film noir thriller with all of its requisite parts - an alienated hero of questionable morality, a seemingly unbeatable foe, a femme fatale and is set against the dark locations of a socialist dystopic America in the year 2038.
Keywords: adventure-hero, alien, assassin, chase, cigarette-smoking, communism, death, death-of-friend, explosion, future
Freedom has evolved.
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Ronin is a retired member of The Legion, a hit squad responsible for the extinction of the Dropas, an alien race that migrated to Earth centuries before from their dying planet. The Dropas brought with them advances in genetic technology and The Virus. A deadly airborne contagion that spread from the spores of their adaptive cocoons. The Premier of the American Union formed a covert government agency to deal with the outbreak. The Legion's mission was simple, eradicate the Dropa threat - they did. A decade later, Ronin is forced out of retirement to hunt a renegade Dropa intent on killing the remaining members of The Legion. Ronin's investigation leads him to his former comrades and one step closer to finding the Dropa who holds a secret that will shake the foundation of his beliefs, the truth about The Legion, the Dropas and himself. This ambitious, enigmatic and complex story is an epic futuristic film noir thriller with all of its requisite parts - an alienated hero of questionable morality, a seemingly unbeatable foe, a femme fatale and is set against the dark locations of a socialist dystopic America in the year 2038.
Keywords: adventure-hero, alien, assassin, chase, cigarette-smoking, communism, death, death-of-friend, explosion, future
Freedom has evolved.
This Christmas, seize eternity.
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Young Mary Katherine (M.K.) returns to her eccentric scientist father's home, but his all-consuming quest to discover a tiny civilization in the neighboring forest drives them apart. However, M.K. soon finds herself shrunken down by Queen Tara of that forest who was mortally wounded by the putrefying Boggans, and charged to deliver a pod bearing the new Queen to safety. Together with a veteran Leafman warrior, two goofy mollusks and a young maverick, M.K. agrees to help. As the villainous Boggan leader, Mandrake closes in, M.K. and her new friends must draw on the best of themselves together and discover what they have to save their world.
Keywords: based-on-book, bat, bird, bird-rider, bud, death-of-queen, decay, deer, dog, fantasy-world
Discover a world beyond your imagination
Prepare for something epic
Discover a world from the creators of Ice Age and Rio
[from trailer]::Bomba: Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it's not there.
Mub: What's going on, baby girl?::Mary Katherine: Talking snails.::Mub: Actually, he's a snail. I'm a sluuuug. No shell over here, baby. It just slows me down.
[from trailer]::Mary Katherine: Who are you people?::Ronin: We are the Leafmen, protectors of the forest.
[from trailer]::Mandrake: I'm going to destroy the forest. But I'm only going to do it once, so try to pay attention.
[from trailer]::Mary Katherine: I'm not from this world.::Nod: What happened? You got shrunk?::Mary Katherine: Yes!::Nod: Seriously?::Ronin: It's been a weird day for everybody.
[from trailer]::Queen Tara: You're here for a reason. Sometimes the connections aren't clear, but they're always there.
[from trailer]::Ronin: If our world dies, your world will die too.
[from trailer]::Nod: C'mon! You're with us now.
[from trailer]::Mandrake: The forest belongs to the darkness.
Mandrake: [from trailer] You just can't stop the rot.::Mub: Ugly says what?::Mandrake: What?::Mub: Nothing. [he and Grub snicker]
The gritty realistic nature of Watchmen meets Unbreakable's conquest for morality.
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A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, 19th-century, adultery, asian-woman, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, billiards, blindfold, brothel
Love knows no borders
Come back, or I shall die.
Each step away from her... brings him closer.
Baldabiou: I once knew a man who built his own railroad. It was completely straight. Not one curve in it. He had a reason for that. I don't remember what it was. Reasons get forgotten.
Baldabiou: There seems to be some trouble in Japan...
Hélène Joncour: What is it?::Hervé Joncour: It's your garden.::Hélène Joncour: It's my garden?::Hervé Joncour: Well, not quite. Not yet. For now, it's a plot of land. Our land. And the house is also ours. This is where we'll grow old Helene.::Hélène Joncour: But I don't understand...::Hervé Joncour: The eggs have hatched, they're perfect. This year's production will be huge, and Baldabiou has already paid us our share. We're rich, Helene. We're very very rich!::Hélène Joncour: [Awestruck] And this for such tiny eggs...
Hervé Joncour: [toasts] To our lasting friendship.
[first lines]::Hervé Joncour: Steaming water. Strange trees. Laughing children. Her skin... those eyes. But why should I tell you about it? Why now? Maybe I just need to tell someone about it. And that someone is you.
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While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them...
Keywords: japan, jidai-geki, kabuki, kimono, love, sword, theatre, year-1836
Our disease, everywhere I wander
I trail the song of your despair, everywhere
don't you breathe, don't you dare?
Only life, do you care when it's gone?
who's side are you on anyway, do you care?
wanna stay ruled by your fear?
I don't know what it is that binds me to be like this,
we can't ever be at peace
carry on 'til we cease
Realize that I would
could spare you
if I only I knew how to be another man
than the wanderer I am
Walk with me into the world that waits to be
Here
Dawn the sea of the light that wants to be
Always ahead of the truth in us
Longing to be more than we are just because
Dawn is the promise of light
In the darkness where we hide
Our disease, everywhere I wander
I trail the song of your despair, everywhere
don't you breathe, don't you dare?
Only life, do you care when it's gone?
who's side are you on anyway, do you care?
wanna stay ruled by your fear?
All the world is yours to keep
All you have to do is walk with me
Walk with me into the world that waits to be
Here
Dawn the sea of the light that wants to be
Always ahead of the truth in us
Longing to be more than we are just because
Time holds a candle for each of us
Don't let it burn without meaning or a cause
Dawn is the promise of light
In the darkness where we hide
All the world is yours to keep
All you have to do is walk with me
All the world is yours to keep