Band of Ninja

Name: Band of Ninja
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Genre: Animation, Drama, Action, War
Released: 1967-02-15
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Rokkō Toura, Kei Satō, Kei Yamamoto, Hōsei Komatsu, Noriko Matsumoto

1967

Animation Drama Action War

Director: Nagisa Ōshima

Writers: Mamoru Sasaki, Nagisa Ōshima

Overview

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.