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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo(1980)

02/23/1980 (JP)ActionWarDrama2h 13m
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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.

Eiichi Kudo

Director

Movie Cast

Teruhiko Saigō photo

Teruhiko Saigō

Upper Hanzo

Mikio Narita photo

Mikio Narita

Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

Ken Ogata photo

Ken Ogata

Koga Shiro Samurai

Sō Yamamura photo

Sō Yamamura

Masayuki Hoshina

Aiko Morishita photo

Aiko Morishita

Chisato (Orie)

Emi Harada photo

Emi Harada

Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

Ueda Takanori photo

Ueda Takanori

Tokugawa Letsuna

Tsunehiko Watase photo

Tsunehiko Watase

Lower Hanzo

Movie Stats

StatusReleased

BudgetNot Given

RevenueNot Given

Production CompanyToei Company

Original LanguageJapanese

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