
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Eiichi Kudo's strangest film that started the Shadow Warriors ball rolling
1980 ja 133 minutes
Rating: 8
Plot
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.
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Cast

Teruhiko Saigō
Upper Hanzo

Mikio Narita
Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

Ken Ogata
Koga Shiro Samurai

Sō Yamamura
Masayuki Hoshina

Aiko Morishita
Chisato (Orie)

Emi Harada
Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

Ueda Takanori
Tokugawa Letsuna

Tsunehiko Watase
Lower Hanzo