Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

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

8.0/102h 13m1980
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

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

ActionWarDrama

Production Companies

Toei Company

Additional Information

Original Title:影の軍団 服部半蔵
Original Language:Japanese
Status:Released

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