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23/02/1980 Action, War, Drama 2h 13m
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Eiichi Kudo's strangest film that started the Shadow Warriors ball rolling

Overview

The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.

  1. Eiichi Kudō

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Teruhiko Saigō

    Upper Hanzo

  2. Mikio Narita

    Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

  3. Ken Ogata

    Koga Shiro Samurai

  4. So Yamamura

    Masayuki Hoshina

  5. Aiko Morishita

    Chisato (Orie)

  6. Emi Harada

    Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

  7. Ueda Takanori

    Tokugawa Letsuna

  8. Tsunehiko Watase

    Lower Hanzo

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Full Cast & Crew

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Status
Released

Original Language
Japanese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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