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Expositon:  The exposition is at the beginning of the movie when Lord Hidetora  decides to renounce his charge and abdicate in favor of his 3 sons. This will start a revolt or conflict between  them  and his father. Lord Hidetora decides that his first son Taro will supply his range. He would own his first an important castle, and the other 2 sons Jiro and Saburo  would share the other castles. Saburo his third son reclaims and his father gets angry so he exiles  and disclaim him as his son. 

Inciting Incident:   

At the beginning Taro, was not interested in being the new ruler, but his wife,  Lady Kaede, manipulates him and Taro makes his father sign a guarantee in which he wouldn’t intervene in his plans and In his ruling and if he does it he may kill him. Lord Hidetora gets confused about his son. 

Rising Action:   We can find the rising action when a Jiro and Taro have a conflict, because both of them want to be powerful. Lord Hidetora realizes that Jiro is acting like his old brother and gets mad at him. Meanwhile, Jiro and Taro find out that Saburo is joining other powerful Lord.  It is also revealed that Lord Hidetora burned Lady Sue’s castle, Jiro’s wife.  Surprisingly, she is not mad at him because she is devoted to Buda and she calms down preying but Lord Hidetora is confused about her feelings and tells her to hate him. 

Climax:  

The Climax starts when Jiro’s assistant goes to Saburo’s castle and proclaims it as Jiro’s. But the soldiers and Saburo’s servants don’t  care about the castle and then they  go to Saburo and with the other Lord.   Surprisingly Jiro and Tora attacks the main castle and there stars massacre, Kurogane, Jiro’s assistant, kills Taro. Lord HIdetora became crazy and felt regret for dismissing Saburo. He starts walking in the middle of nowhere with both of his loyal servants.

Jiro goes to his death brother castle and talks to his wife Lady Kaede and tells her that his brother is death. She manipulates him as well and order him to kill his wife so she could be with him. She also manipulates him to star a war.

One of Lord Hidetora’s servant, Tango, told him that they should go and see Saburo, but Lord Hidetora don’t want to see him because his ashamed and does not know how to talk to him.

He keeps waliking and gets sick and more crazy, they find a little house in which Lady Sue’s brother lives. Lord Hidetora became even more crazy because he is blind because of the incident of the burned castle.

Falling Action:

The falling action is when Kaede sees that Jiro is falling for her, and she thinks that he really will kills his wife, but Kurogane didnt do it, so she became mad.

All armies get join and ready to attack and finnaly Saburo appears on screen with his little army, but Saburo does not want war as aslo his brother. The main objective of Jiro’s plan  is finding his father because he is scared if saburo tell him that he kill Jiro. 

Turning Point:

This stars with the reunion of Lord Hidetora and his son Saburo, this is a really emotive scene, but thaks to Kaede, the war started and Saburo was killed and then the Lord dies from a heart attack. 

Resolution:

Kurogane tells Jiro that it was all Kaede’s fault, and she admits its, Kaedes only wanted to revenge because they killed their family, Jiro’s got mad and kill her, but it is to late, the war has started, and Kurogane tells him “are you prepare to die” and the film ends, with the death of the tree sons and his father.