幕府时代末期，外忧内患，山河动荡，百姓生活困苦，且生命时刻受到威胁。少年心太因其善良纯洁之心感动飞天御剑流高手比古清十郎，被其收入门下学习剑法，更名剑心。
在国家危难之际，年轻的剑心怀揣改变时代的梦想下山，加入奇兵队，日后更被桂小五郎纳入麾下，以刽子手的身份为时代的变革尽一份绵薄之力。年仅15岁的剑心接连刺杀多名政府要员，令对手闻风丧胆，直到某一天，一名下级武士在他的脸上留下一道无法愈合的伤疤。
来至京都寻找爱人的雪代巴邂逅了剑心，正是眼前这名瘦弱的男子将爱人从她的生命中带走。巴走入剑心的生活，随之经历了政治斗争的血雨腥风和田园乡下的宁静淡雅。也许她正是剑心那把狂舞之刀的刀鞘，但在大时代的背景之下，两个人的渺小幸福一触即碎……

2007 Japanese animated science fiction film

2008 film by Mamoru Oshii

A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.

连续的破坏活动出现在东京湾附近。城南署的刑事久住及秦负责此案的调查工作。调查中，秦认识了担任大学讲师的冴子，并渐渐地对她产生了好感。之后，秦与久住在东京湾上的储备基地遭遇了将人类一个个吞噬的异型怪物，原以为这个怪物就是连续袭击事件的真正凶手，没想到怪物遗留于现场的肉块，却让整个事件产生了翻天覆地的大转变，事件的内幕波及到了警视厅、防卫厅及特车二课，甚至还发现了秦所不知道的冴子的另一面。光明下是令人惊愕的真相，黑暗中自卫队已经开始行动。正当秦不知所措之时，怪物再度出现于东京湾。为了结束这场悲痛的战役，机动警察部队挺身而出。

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.