Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo (1980)

Directed by Eiichi Kudō

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

Action, War, Drama · 2h 13m

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.

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Cast

Teruhiko Saigō Upper Hanzo Mikio Narita Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna Ken Ogata Koga Shiro Samurai So Yamamura Masayuki Hoshina Aiko Morishita Chisato (Orie)
E
Emi Harada Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)
U
Ueda Takanori Tokugawa Letsuna Tsunehiko Watase Lower Hanzo

Crew

Director
Eiichi Kudō
Screenplay
Yamada Takayuki
Director of Photography
Tôru Nakajima

Details

Original title
影の軍団 服部半蔵
Release date
1980-02-23
Runtime
2h 13m
Genres
Action, War, Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Toei Company