Christ's Samurai

In 1637, the Shogun declared war on a sinister, foreign suicide cult.

In 1637, the persecuted Christians of south Japan proclaimed the coming of a teenage messiah.

In 1638, the last battle of the samurai era took place at Hara Castle.

In 1638, a vast samurai army massacred starving men, women and children at Hara Castle.

All these statements are true.

Here is the story of a rebellion which pitched samurai traditionalists against peasant revolutionaries, who believed in a kingdom of heaven, led by a child they believed was the new messiah.