Year: 1962
Duration: 01:30:49
Directed by: Shigehiro Ozawa
Actors: Yaoei Akechi, Koji Arima, Iwao Daimaru, Kogiku Hanayagi
Language: Japanese (English subs)
Country: Japan
Also known as: Akai kage-bôshi
Description: Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo, the leader of 36 Iga members who were performing as guards of the castle, perceives the existence of a ninja and captures the sneaker. Unexpectedly, the ninja turns out to be a woman, and Hanzo rapes her. Years later, when the nation is under the rule of Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa shogunate, a magician pair of a mother and her child appears in a busy area in Edo. The mother is the woman ninja, who is actually a daughter of Mitsunari. The pair of mother and son ninjas is waiting for the opportunity to take revenge. They learn the opportunity has come, hearing that Iemitsu will hold a martial arts tournament on the premises of one of his direct retainer, Mizuno Jurozaemon. The winner will be awarded with 10 swords that were captured from Toyotomi family’s ware-house…
Review: This little-known band Shigehiro Ozawa about medieval times Samurai tells about some troubles Seyemone – illegitimate son Hattori Handzo (the very devil Handzo, which in many modern works depict as the greatest shinobi). The film is set in the era of the third shogun Iemitsu. Mysterious magician by rior grasp of their craft, was invited to visit one of the faithful vassals of Tokugawa.
During the ceremony of drinking nihonsyu the estate of the landowner’s envoy arrives and tells about upcoming competitions twenty men selected for the genuine relics of the “great military leader” – captured katana, one of which is the secret of finding the key to the rich fund military commander “Western coalition” Ishida Mitsunari
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