The Brocade-Clad Guards Save the Nation

At the head of Orange Isle, the great river flows east. Toyotomi Hideyoshi practices his martial arts and plays his biwa in the autumn rain, commanding the realm from his stronghold. Beneath the Lingyan Pavilion, within the Forbidden City, the Wanli Emperor dances drunkenly in the spring breeze, amusing himself with beauties, while he builds an empire with iron horses and flashing whips.

In a city of bells and drums, amid carved balustrades and ruined hills, a youth in rough, shabby clothes watches Japanese warriors in the fading light of sunset. He smiles and draws the embroidered spring saber at his side... He will win a marquis's title and build a great empire, driving out foreign invaders.

A bloody war between China and Japan, followed by peace talks between two great empires: a lavish feast of conflict over supremacy in Southeast Asia!

The Wanli Emperor sets his sights on Toyotomi and his sons, confronting an invasion plot long in the making!

The Embroidered Uniform Guard takes on Japanese ninjas of the Hokushin Itto school; Ming cavalry and famous generals clash with the fierce soldiers and mighty commanders of Japan's Warring States period.

The Chinese Empire looks down upon Japan's Azuchi-Momoyama era. A shocking truth, twisted and buried by Japan for four hundred years!

The final glorious song of the Ming dynasty!

The last time in Chinese history that a Han dynasty raised its armies beyond its borders!

A solemn resolve to give one's own servants to the enemy rather than surrender them to foreign invaders! Conquer ten thousand miles of ocean and carry the nation's prestige to the far corners of the world.