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Ninja Scroll

Jûbei ninpûchô

Japan

1993

94 Min
Color
1.33:1
Japanese
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DIR Yoshiaki Kawajiri

PROD Shigeki Komatsu, Haruo Sai, Masaki Sawanobori

SCR Yoshiaki Kawajiri

DP Hitoshi Yamaguchi

CAST Kôichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Daisuke Gōri, Toshihiko Seki

ED Yukiko Ito, Harutoshi Ogata

MUSIC Kaoru Wada

Synopsis

A Journeyman ninja by name of Jubei stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a beautiful ninja girl. —IMDb

Director

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Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Yoshiaki Kawajiri (川尻 善昭 Kawajiri Yoshiaki?, born November 18, 1950) is a critically acclaimed writer and director of Japanese animation. He is the creator of titles such as Wicked City, Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.

Kawajiri was born on November 18, 1950 and grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. After he graduated from Yokohama High School in 1968 he began working for a few years as an animator at Mushi Production Animation until it closed in 1972. He then joined Madhouse Studio and in the 1970s was promoted to animation director and finally debuted as a film director with 1984’s Lensman, directing jointly with the more experienced Kazuyuki Hirokawa (Kawajiri also did the character design along with Kazuo Tomizawa). Gaining an interest in darker animation, he next directed The Running Man. Afterwards, he was instructed to make a 35 minute short based on Hideyuki Kikuchi’s novels, which was released as Wicked City. After completing it, however, his… read more

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Bima_FR

25Feb13

Not even 2 minutes in and I'm going to.. HOLY SHIT!

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Max Kazaam Wilde

2Feb13

Character development isn't really needed here and because we don't get much of it, the movie has a kind of blunt darkness to it that made it a very new experience for me as a kid. An old favorite that doesn't get old.

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Jonathan De La Rosa

11Apr12

Action and animation are great. Everything else is kind of shitty.

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Prabs

6Oct11

superb action, not much character development.

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