SABURO - The Saga of a Teenage Samurai in 17th Century Japan

This is a series of true-to-the-life-and-times of a teenage samurai who, like his hero Musashi Miyamoto, opts out of the traditional role of retainer to a samurai lord when he is formally and officially vested as a samurai at the age of 15...choosing instead to become a life-long "samurai-in-training," meaning he becomes a freelance samurai. But instead of seeking out duels-to-the-death like his hero he seeks to engaged in instructive fights with other samurai...becoming so skilled he cannot be beaten...as did his hero, who gave up killing his opponents when he had killed some 65 warriors and thereafter gave only demonstration bouts, never losing one of hundreds he fought over the next decades. Saburo finally finds a master who teaches him the secrets of the nature of life.