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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Movie"Eiichi Kudo's strangest film that started the Shadow Warriors ball rolling"
Audience Score
80
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
NR 2 hr 13 minWar, Action, Drama
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.

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Toei Company