Movie: Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Top 8 Billed Cast

Teruhiko Saigō
西郷輝彦

Upper Hanzo

Mikio Narita
成田三樹夫

Matsudaira Izu Mamoru Nobutsuna

Ken Ogata
緒形拳

Koga Shiro Samurai

So Yamamura
山村聰

Masayuki Hoshina

Aiko Morishita
森下愛子

Chisato (Orie)

Emi Harada
Emi Harada

Kohagi (sister of lower Hanzo)

Ueda Takanori
Ueda Takanori

Tokugawa Letsuna

Tsunehiko Watase
渡瀬恒彦

Lower Hanzo

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1980-02-23

  • Average

    6

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
  • Tagline

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

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  • Languages:

    日本語
  • Keywords

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