Ninja Scroll (1993)
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Directors
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
The story
In Edo period-Japan, the mines gold in secret, and sends a shipment to the Toyotomi as payment for his protection. The Shogun of the Dark intends to use the gold to buy advanced Spanish weaponry and overthrow the current government, the Tokugawa Shogunate. The ship runs aground onto in a storm, and the , a ninja team with supernatural powers in the employ of the Yamashiro, kill the people of the nearby to keep the gold shipment a secret.
Genres
adventure film, fantasy anime and manga, fantasy film, horror anime and manga, ninja film, samurai cinema
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