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''Afro Samurai: Resurrection'' is a 2009 film sequel to the 2007 ''Afro Samurai'' anime; the movie was shown on Spike TV, on January 25, 2009. American actor Samuel L. Jackson returns as the voice for Afro and Ninja-Ninja, while this time he is joined by Lucy Liu, who voices Afro's enemy Sio. Mark Hamill also joins as the voice of Sio's protector and henchman Bin while Yuri Lowenthal reprises his role of Jinno/Kuma. ==Plot== Resurrection is a continuation of the original story, in which Afro fought to obtain the No. 1 headband and defeat his father's killer. The story begins with Afro refusing to wear the No. 1 headband as the rules require, spending his days making wooden sculptures of people from his past instead of fighting. Afro has a dream, about him going fishing and still wearing the number 2 headband. After dispatching two swordsman and a group of assassins on a bridge, he sees two people crucified, one of them being his father and the other one being Justice. His father, in pain, calls Afro and begins losing flesh. Afro wakes up in scream. One dark and stormy night, Jinno and a mysterious woman named Sio attack Afro. Jinno easily defeats Afro and takes the No. 1 headband for Sio. Jinno opens the grave of Afro's father and takes the remains. Sio reveals herself as Jinno's sister and tells Afro her plans to resurrect Afro's father Rokutaro so she can torture him as revenge against Afro for the lives he has destroyed, including her brother's and her own. Sio challenges Afro to find the No. 2 headband to earn the right to challenge her. Afro, determined to recover the No. 1 headband and his father's remains, sets off to find the No. 2 headband. At "Lady's Luck Town" in a stripper/sex club, Afro Samurai finds Brother 1 (confined to a standing wheelchair) and Brother 3. Afro wages his life on a dice game for information on the No. 2 headband. Brother 3 cheats, but Afro knows and threatens to kill him, forcing Brother 3 to identify the bearer of the No. 2 headband is a man named Shichigoro. Afro, in search of Shichigoro, coincidentally kills the kidnapper of Shichigoro's son and prompts Shichigoro to buy him a drink. Bound by honor, they fight to the death with the No. 2 headband at stake, and upon victory, Afro continues on toward Sio. Shichigoro's adopted son Kotaro, who witnesses his father's death, sobs and then vows revenge over the dead body of his father much like Afro and Justice. After claiming the number 2 headband, Afro confronts Sio and Jinno again, this time Sio holds the resurrected head of Rokutaro, Afro's father. He tries to attack Sio, but his attack is repelled by Jinno. Along the way he is observed by three masked android warriors from his past. The warriors are revealed to be a part of Sio's original plan to overwhelm Afro in the final battle, but apparently had decided to battle Afro early in an attempt to finish him off before Sio had to dirty her hands. Afro battles and defeats the three while Sio attempts to resurrect a mind-controlled version of Rokutaro. However, Rokutaro is revived before he is completely restored, leaving him merely a mindless, though apparently somewhat controllable, killing machine. Afro defeats the three and is soon confronted by Sio, Jinno, and Rokutaro. With Afro hesitant to fight his father, Rokutaro defeats and kills him (stops his heart from beating by strangling him). Jinno comes to Afro's aid, though pointless as Sio points out, in a sudden flash of selective memories of being a childhood friend and sparring partner with Afro. Landing only a few blows, Jinno is quickly killed by Rokutaro, who kills Sio in the same blow when she attempts to come to Jinno's aid. The cybernetic remains of Jinno give off an electrical surge which, conducted through the spilled blood of Sio, restarts Afro's heart. Afro apparently defeats Rokutaro and emerges from the scene wearing the No. 1 headband. Afro walks away from the battle, wearing the No. 1 headband and clutching the No. 2 headband in right hand. He comes across Shichigoro's orphaned son, who had been following him, and hands him the No. 2, telling him to challenge him when he's ready. In the final scene, Takimoto meets up with a mysterious person who turns out to be Justice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Afro Samurai: Resurrection」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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