Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

133 mins | Drama, Action, War | Feb. 23, 1980

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.

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

133 mins | Drama, Action, War | Feb. 23, 1980

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Toei Company, Ltd.
Original title 影の軍団 服部半蔵
Directors Eiichi Kudo
Writers Takayuki Yamada

Cast

Teruhiko Saigō

as Upper Hanzo

Mikio Narita

as Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

Ken Ogata

as Koga Shiro Samurai

Sō Yamamura

as Masayuki Hoshina

Aiko Morishita

as Chisato (Orie)

Emi Harada

as Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

Ueda Takanori

as Tokugawa Letsuna

Tsunehiko Watase

as Lower Hanzo