Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Feb 23, 1980

2h 13m

★ 8.0

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.

Genres

Action

War

Drama

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Upper Hanzo

Teruhiko Saigō

Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

Mikio Narita

Koga Shiro Samurai

Ken Ogata

Masayuki Hoshina

So Yamamura

Chisato (Orie)

Aiko Morishita

Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

Emi Harada

Tokugawa Letsuna

Ueda Takanori

Lower Hanzo

Tsunehiko Watase

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