The incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai.
In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his village as a boy, sold as a slave to mercenaries and forced to fight in Indian wars that meant nothing to him, he is a young but experienced soldier.
Serving as the protector for a high-ranking Italian priest, the young man joins an expedition pushing inland towards the capital city of Kyoto.
In central Japan, they meet Oda Nobunaga, the land-s most powerful warlord who is preparing a campaign to complete the unification of a nation that-s been torn apart by over a hundred years of civil war. Under the tutelage of Nobunaga, the young African soldier becomes the great warrior Yasuke, who against all odds becomes Japan-s first foreign samurai, and the only one of African descent. His preoccupation is not a question of power, as it is for Nob
