Director: Shinichiro Sawai
Starring: Takashi Kinoshita
Reiko Kikuchi
Mayumi Ifune
Genre: Biography
Year: 2007
Region: Japan
Duration: 136 minutes
Plot Introduction:
This film is a commemorative piece marking the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan's unification of Mongolia, presenting an epic historical narrative of his journey in unitifying the Mongol tribes.
The so-called Blue Wolf is the great spirit considered to be the ancestor of the Mongolian people. Every individual within the Mongolian nation inherits the bloodline of the Blue Wolf.
In June 1162, on the Mongolian steppe, a boy was born to Hoelun, wife of Yesukhei of the Borjigin clan of the Mongols, as their carriage traversed the vast grasslands. At that time, Mongolia was in a state of constant warfare between various tribes, with women from defeated tribes often taken as captives. Hoelun herself had been the wife of a chief from another tribe before being captured by the Borjigin clan after her tribe's defeat. Coincidentally, on the day of the child's birth, his father Yesukhei had just captured the leader of the Tatar tribe, also named Temujin. To commemorate this victory, Yesukhei named his newborn son Temujin. This boy would grow up to become the man who established one of the largest empires in history — Genghis Khan.
He was a great hero of the Mongolian people, an outstanding military strategist and politician, but what was his true pursuit in life? Originally the son of the leader of a small Mongolian tribe, he grew up amidst fierce tribal rivalries and eventually unified all of Mongolia, gradually realizing his dream of dominating the continent on the steppes...