Black Lion

Nov 21, 1992

1h 0m

★ 5.4

Fear the Black Lion!

Overview

The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.

Genres

Animation

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

Nippon Columbia

Dynamic Planning

Minamimachi Bugyosho

Tokyo Kids

Black Lion Trailers

Cast

Shishimaru (voice)

Yasunori Matsumoto

Doma Jinnai (voice)

Yusaku Yara

Hayabusa (voice)

Ai Orikasa

Momji (voice)

Kan Fujimoto

Momochi Sandayu (voice)

Kan Tokumaru

Oda Nobunaga (voice)

Kazuyuki Sogabe

Kojiro (voice)

Koji Tsujitani

Oyu (voice)

Yuri Amano

Nagato (voice)

Yuzuru Fujimoto

Nagatoji (voice)

Jo Maemoto

Nobunaga (voice)

Kazunori Sogabe

Saburota (voice)

Masashi Hirose

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