YMMV / King of Wolves

• Complete Monster: General Yang, second only to Genghis Khan himself in the Mongol Empire, is a brutish conqueror who happily leads his men on savage campaigns where he takes any woman who catches his fancy. Abducting time-displaced heroine Kyoko, Yang has an old woman killed for trying to stop him and only relents in raping Kyoko when she threatens suicide. Wanting to break her, he shows her the arenas he's created where prisoners are forced to fight to the death for his amusement, revealing the mightiest of them is Kyoko's lost love Iba. Upon seeing their love for one another, Yang makes Iba "kneel" by hurling knives into his legs and sends him to die in battle before plotting to make Kyoko his by forcing her to walk through the desert heat until she will do anything for a drop of water.
• Magnificent Bastard: Yoshitsune Minamoto was a famed general who faked his death and alongside his battle brother Benkei and fled Japan to eventually arrive in Mongolia. Becoming the titular "King of Wolves", Genghis Khan himself, with his desire to leave a legacy, the Khan conquers his way across all of Asia with daring and brilliant strategies. When he realizes the time traveling warrior Iba is Japanese as well and a master warrior, the Khan makes him one of his greatest generals while allowing him to carry his beloved Kyoko. When they have a son, Genghis Khan orders Benkei to murder Iba so he may claim the boy as an heir. Even when bested by Iba, the Khan opts to kill himself honorably and be reunited with his own wife and child, having arranged it so Iba is forced to take up the identity of Genghis Khan and steer history down its proper path.

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