Hell’s Paradise

Gabimaru once led the shinobi of Iwagakure as the village's most efficient killer. The Edo shogunate puts him on death row and offers him an exit: an expedition to a remote, paradisiacal island where the Elixir of Life is said to grow. Whoever brings back a sample walks free. Gabimaru is paired with the executioner who has so far failed to behead him, a woman named Sagiri, and sent in alongside a roster of other condemned criminals. The island turns out to be something other than paradise — its statues bleed, its hermits do not die, and almost no one who lands on it leaves.