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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo (1980)

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo (1980)

Action Drama War

Eiichi Kudo's strangest film that started the Shadow Warriors ball rolling

Release Date: 1980, February 23
Directors: Eiichi Kudō
Countries: Japan
Production: Toei Company
Cast: So Yamamura, Tsunehiko Watase, Mikio Narita, Ken Ogata, Teruhiko Saigō, Aiko Morishita, Emi Harada, Ueda Takanori

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.

Keywords:

ninja conspiracy historical drama jidaigeki edo period iga