Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Name: Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Director: Eiichi Kudō
Genre: Drama, Action, War
Released: 1980-02-23

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

Film19802h 13mReleased

DramaActionWar

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Director: Eiichi Kudō
Language: Japanese
Released: 1980-02-23
Runtime: 2h 13m

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6.02 votes on TMDB

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The story

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.