Band of Ninja (1967)
Original title: 忍者武芸帳
Band of Ninja is a 1967 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Nagisa Ōshima, with a running time of 2h. It stars Rokkō Toura, Kei Satō and Kei Yamamoto.
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Cast
- Rokkō Toura as Kagemaru
- Kei Satō as Sakagami Shuzen
- Kei Yamamoto as Yûki Jûtarô
- Hōsei Komatsu as Onkichi
- Noriko Matsumoto as Hotarubi
- Hideo Kanze as Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
- Hikaru Hayashi as Kinoshita Tôkichiô
- Yoshiyuki Fukuda as Mufu Dojin
- Fumio Watanabe as Oda Nobunaga / Kennyo
- Akiko Koyama as Akemi
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Akechi Mitsuhide
- Shoichi Ozawa as Narrator