The movie Brave Gunjyo Senki begins in a prestigious Japanese
athletes’ school, Seitoku. One rainy day, a
student named Fuwa is standing on the roof. He is
a Kendo major and is carrying a bag of supplies,
alongside a sword. Suddenly, lightning strikes a
massive rock in front of the school which creates
an array of mysterious energy. Fuwa jumps off the
building and levitates because of the force.
The scene cuts to a year later. Fuwa disappeared
that day and has been forgotten over time. We are
introduced to the protagonist of the film and an
archery major, Aoi. He is the best student in his
class but isn’t confident in his skills. Because
of the same reason, he hasn’t been able to win
any competitions for himself or for the school.
Aoi’s childhood best friend Haruka is also his
classmate and is always encouraging him.
It is a normal day in Seitoku school when all
of a sudden, lightning hits the magical rock for
the second time. It is followed by heavy rainfall
which surprises everyone since it was a bright
day some seconds ago. Soon, the kids find out the
droplets of water are actually warm blood.
Before they comprehend what is going on,
hundreds of cicadas emerge from the soil and fly
everywhere. Then, the buildings around the school
disappear and are replaced by a vast forest. As
the football players watch the forest bewildered,
a group of Samurai in traditional
clothing appear out of the mist.
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They instantly start slaughtering the kids one
after another. Chaos ensues as the samurais
spread around the school and violently kill
everyone in their way. Aoi and Haruka try to
save their lives but are caught by a killer.
He manages to cut Aoi’s palm but before he
lands a second attack, Kota saves them. Kota is
Aoi’s friend and the captain of the Kendo club.
Being an experienced Kendo fighter, he is the
one man who can survive against the invaders.
The three run into a relatively safe classroom
where Haruka covers Aoi’s injury with a
handkerchief. They plan to stay there until it
is safe but are quickly discovered. While running
away, Kota offers to fight the enemy and asks them
to get their weapons from the archery club.
Aoi and Haruka run to the club while witnessing
piles of their classmates’ and teachers’ bodies
lying on the ground. Aoi is also interested
in Japan’s history and the heroes of the
past. Judging by the invaders’ weapons, he assumes
that they are from the time of the Okehazama war.
The theory is crazy because it would mean the
entire school has time traveled to the past.
Soon, the surviving students compose themselves
and start fighting back using their respective
areas of expertise. The leaders of different
clubs like boxing, fencing, and martial arts
take initiative to fight and save others.
At one point, the battle shifts to the football
field and grows more violent. A samurai is about
to kill a girl but is in Aoi’s line of attack.
However, he freezes and Haruka saves
the girl in the nick of time.
She slaps Aoi in the face, ordering him to get
his act straight. Being nervous in a simple
archery competition is acceptable but he must
learn to protect a friend in need at any cost.
Suddenly, they are interrupted by the
arrival of a masked warlord named Yanada.
He orders the kids to surrender the castle,
referring to the school. Kota asks everyone
to keep their ground but there are too
many enemies and too few of them.
Suddenly, the science club throws little
smoke bombs from the rooftop and sacres the
ancient soldiers. Yanada is about to retaliate
when an informer tells him that the army led
by Lord Matsudaira is approaching the castle.
Yamada and Matsudaira have a year-long rivalry,
and Yamada knows going against Matsudaira’s
army will be the end of his troops.
Hence, he calls his people to retreat but not
without abducting as many survivors as they can.
The students try to defend themselves and
their friends but can only protect some.
More than a dozen students are taken hostage
while the others can do nothing but cry.
After everything calms down, a student checks
the school’s surroundings using a drone and
sees that the entire city has vanished.
The only building left is their school.
A while later, Lord Matsudaira arrives
as expected. Unlike Yamada’s troops,
his people are not violent but they push the
students into the basketball court for safety.
The students start to panic, unaware of where
they are and where their friends have been taken.
To reduce their anxiety, Aoi speaks up since he
has the most knowledge about ancient Japan.
He reveals that they have somehow entered the
15th century also known as the Sengoku period.
The battle of Okehazama is about to take place
which is the deadliest and most cruel internal
war Japan has ever faced. To make matters worse,
their school seems to be the epicenter.
The battle will be between the Oda clan and the
Imagawa clan. The man who attacked them earlier,
Yadama, was an ally of the Oda clan which
would eventually win the battle despite being
outnumbered. Moreover, the man who is currently
holding them hostage Matsudaira was an ally of the
Imagawa clan which is said to lose the war.
Even after losing the war, Matsudaira will be
one of the three great unifiers of Japan who
shapes the country into what it is today.
If the students stay in the school, they
will get in the middle of the battle and
probably die. They panic and start revolting
but Kota stops everyone. He reminds them that
any decision taken hastily might put their
lives at risk even before the battle.
The smart step would be to allow Aoi
to form a plan since he knows exactly
how the battle is going to play out.
The pressure of everyone’s hope is too much
for Aoi but he remembers what Haruka
told him earlier and calms down.
He and Kota present themselves to
Matsudaira as the leaders of their group.
Since they do not belong to either of the
battling clans, Matsudaira thinks they are
lying and commands his soldiers to kill them.
Aoi quickly makes them halt by suggesting they
work together. He knows that Matsudaira’s current
aim is to deliver war supplies to a castle of
their allies. However, the enemy Oda force has
built two camps right in front of the castle to
stop its connection with the rest of the world.
Aoi suggests they attack the first camp to divert
the enemy’s attention while the main
troops secretly transfer the supplies.
He is sure the plan will work because he
has learned about it in history books.
Matsudaira discloses that the kidnapped
students have been hidden in the same camp
so this will not only be a distraction but also
a rescue mission. He agrees to make the deal
with the students and praises Aoi for his quick
thinking. However, Aoi’s people should be the
ones to go on the mission because Matsudaira
doesn’t want to get his hands dirty.
The members of several clubs bravely volunteer to
participate but they still fall short compared to
the five hundred armies of the Oda. Everyone
expects Aoi to join but he surprises them with
his cowardice, claiming that he has to stay
in school to find out a way to return home.
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Somewhere else in the camp, the students who were
abducted are thrown into sheds. The boys are made
to labor for several hours with no food or water
while the girls are taken advantage of.
In the evening, the students light a bonfire
on the football field getting ready for the
upcoming battle. Haruka tells Aoi that he
has so much more potential than he lets on.
She wants him to face his fears and
come to the battle for his friends.
After thinking about it for a long time,
Aoi gathers enough courage and agrees. In
the following scene, he makes an elaborate plan,
assigning every student a task that they are the
best in. He also picks a safe spot where they
should gather if they were to be separated.
For the entire night, the group
prepares for the battle and sets
off for the enemy camp in the morning.
In the meantime, the abducted students are
abused by the Oda soldiers. They killed a
girl last night after abusing her for hours
and have come to pick up two more girls.
Suddenly, the Emperor of the Oda clan,
Nobunaga arrives and kills his own
soldiers, claiming that he doesn’t
allow animalistic behavior against
women even though they are at war.
He is later joined by a soldier named
Toyotomi. Despite being from the rival clan,
Toyotomi and the emperor will join hands
with Matsudaira in the future and the trio
will become the great unifier of modern-day
Japan. They are the most important characters
in the history of Japan and mustn’t die in the
upcoming war for history to remain the same.
Meanwhile, in school, the students figure
out that time travel was possible because
the lighting that hit the sacred rock changed
its magnetic field. If they are able to hit it
again with the same magnitude, there is a
chance they will return to the future.
After finding out that the next rainfall
will occur at midday tomorrow, they begin
making lightning rods. A guy from the sports
club sets off to look for the rescue team and
inform them to return before midday.
However, their plan is ruined when the
rescue team is attacked by the Oda
troops led by the last great unifier,
Toyotomi. A fight ensues and Haruka is captured by
the rivals. Aoi tries to kill them but is scared
that the arrow will hit Haruka instead.
Kota also notices her struggling and runs to
her rescue only to be stabbed from behind and
killed. While the enemies take Haruka away,
Aoi shoots for the first time. It stabs a
man but they manage to escape nonetheless.
Aoi is devastated to his core and blames himself
for his friend’s death and Haruka’s abduction.
The rescue team helplessly runs back to
Matsudaira’s camp and takes shelter.
Matsudaira later finds Aoi crying beside Kota’s
grave. He promises to make Japan peaceful and
starts teaching Aoi the art of Kendo. Aoi used
to be in the Kendo club with Kota long ago.
He revisits the things he was taught and
practices for the rest of the night.
In the meantime, Haruka is thrown into the shed
with her other friends. The warlord Yanada,
who made the first attack, arrives and is
happy to see the prisoners still alive.
He takes off his mask for the first time and
reveals that he is Fuwa, the student who jumped
into the rock at the beginning of the film.
He is a psychopath who knew about the sacred stone
and its powers. He deliberately used it to enter
the 15th century and change the course of the
entire Japanese history with his knowledge of
the past. He mocks his former schoolmates for
being naive and wants to be known as a leader
in the future. His principles are cruel and are
sure to make Japan a worse place if he makes
changes at such a pivotal time in history.
The following morning, the rescue group led
by Aoi is ready to fight yet again. They are
approached by the informant who reveals that they
only have six hours until the rainfall which might
be their last chance to return home.
Aoi riles up the troops and initiates the
invasion. The group separates into three
teams, the first one is the baseball team
which lands a direct attack on the camp.
They attack from a few yards away using
flaming balls which gives them an upper hand.
The second team consists of the leaders of the
fencing and karate club. Their job is to sneak
into the camp and attack from the inside. The
last team consists of the smartest members of
the group including Aoi. They are the ones who
look for their friends and rescue them while the
rest of the group is distracting the enemies.
The baseball team does its best and fights
till the end. They ultimately manage to
take control of the area but most of the
group is killed or heavily injured.
In the meantime, the leader duo is also surrounded
by guards on the other side of the camp.
They manage to kill one skilled swordsman but the
other one kills the leader of the Karate club.
Enraged by his friend’s death, the fencing
club leader rises from the ground and fights
with all his might. He is heavily injured in
the end but manages to kill the rival.
Meanwhile, the survivors from the first
team enter the camp and find two abducted
students. They are overjoyed for a few
seconds before the beloved leader of the
baseball team is shot with an arrow.
Knowing that he won’t survive the injury,
he volunteers to keep the arches away so
the rest of the group can run to safety.
Somewhere else, the last team with Aoi enters the
second barrier and sees that there are still a
hoard of enemy soldiers waiting to fight them.
Their win is almost impossible but they do not
back down and attack the hoard fearlessly.
They finally reach the shed and rescue the
survivors but Haruka is taken away by two guards.
Aoi follows them and is surrounded by Fuwa’s army.
Seconds before he is killed, Matsudaira
arrives with his troops and saves him.
The dying battle picks up with their arrival and
the students gain confidence to fight back harder.
Suddenly, Fuwa brings out a rifle and fires
at Aoi. Matsudaira comes in the way and saves
him but is in turn shot. With his last breath, he
gives Aoi his sword and assigns him to fulfill his
dream of unification. His death means that Fuwa
was able to change Japanese history forever.
Since there is only three hours left to return
home, Aoi asks Haruka to take all the survivors
back to school. He plans to stay until he kills
Fuwa and avenges Matsudaira’s death. In the next
scene, Aoi and Fuwa face each other while the
third unifying leader Toyotomi protects Fuwa.
The man claims that he doesn’t care about the
future of Japan and kills Toyotomi to make
another major change in the future just because
he can. In a final showdown, Aoi goes against
Fuwa but cannot keep up with his skills.
Haruka returns to save him when he is about to
be killed but Fuwa injures her leg, asking her to
stay away. Suddenly, Aoi gets a vision of everyone
that has died in the war. With renewed motivation,
he attacks Fuwa and takes his life.
We see that Toyotomi is not yet dead which
means there is still a chance of history
repeating itself. Aoi then brings Haruka back
to school just before the lightning hits.
However, he decides to stay in the past
to replace Matsudaira and ensure Japan
has a bright future. He hugs Haruka
before wishing her farewell. Then,
the lightning strikes and Aoi sets
off back to the past on his horse.
The scene cuts to a few weeks later when school
is on its way to normalcy after so much chaos.
One day, Haruka reads an article
about the portrait of young Matsudaira
being found in a historical site.
It is a portrait of Aoi wearing the
pattern of the handkerchief that she used to
cover his wound in the battle. In the last clip,
she bursts into happy tears, proud of
Aoi for fulfilling his aim.
