CinemaOSMovie · 1980 · 2h 13m

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

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

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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.

Directed byEiichi Kudō

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 13m
Language
JA
Released
February 23, 1980
Studios
Toei Company

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Teruhiko Saigō

Teruhiko Saigō

Upper Hanzo

Mikio Narita

Mikio Narita

Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Koga Shiro Samurai

So Yamamura

So Yamamura

Masayuki Hoshina

Aiko Morishita

Aiko Morishita

Chisato (Orie)

Emi Harada

Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

Ueda Takanori

Tokugawa Letsuna

Tsunehiko Watase

Tsunehiko Watase

Lower Hanzo

Creative team
Directed by
Eiichi Kudō
Eiichi Kudō
Written by
Yamada Takayuki

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