Ninja, a Band of Assassins
Shinobi no mono, feature film, 1962.
DIRECTED BY: Satsuo Yamamoto
CAST:
Raizô Ichikawa (Ishikawa Goemon),
Yûnosuke Itô (Sandayû Momochi),
Shiho Fujimura (Maki),
Tomisaburô Wakayama (Oda Nobunaga),
Saburô Date
SCRIPT:
: Hajime Takaiwa (prema romanu Tomoyoshija Murayame)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Yasukazu Takemura
Synopsis:
Ishikawa Goemon is a young samurai training to become a ninja. He loses his honor due to an affair with his trainer's wife, and in order to redeem himself and restore his honor, he must go on a difficult mission. His task is to kill the most dangerous man in Japan, samurai Oda Nobunaga, who wants to unite Japanese territories and thus has made all clans his enemies. Although nobody envies Ishikawa for his task, other clans don't want to pass up on the prestigious opportunity to be the ones to kill Nobunaga...
35 mm, color, 104 min