Last Ninja - Blue Shadow(2019)
The second of a two-part ninja action series depicting the elaborate espionage campaign occurring behind the scenes of the 'Toba-Fushimi Battle'. Japan at the end of the Edo Period brought the era of the samurai to a close and made the importance of ninja obsolete. While the forces of the new government and the former shogunate battle fiercely, Sho, a master of the Ryukyu martial arts fulfill a fated rematch with an old adversary.
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The second of a two-part ninja action series depicting the elaborate espionage campaign occurring behind the scenes of the 'Toba-Fushimi Battle'. Japan at the end of the Edo Period brought the era of the samurai to a close and made the importance of ninja obsolete. While the forces of the new government and the former shogunate battle fiercely, Sho, a master of the Ryukyu martial arts fulfill a fated rematch with an old adversary.
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