The film will follow Hugh Jackman's character as he travels to Japan to train with a Samurai warrior.

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Add the mystical mental discipline of a samurai warrior, if I can also force myself to perform more than one or two tai chi swings.

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The Japanese believed in the unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, which held that the true warrior was willing to die for the Emperor and would never surrender.

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