five years after all this has occurred, Jubei is a lone swordsman and there is a new threat called the Shogun of the Dark who are looking to take over politically with a large amount of gold at their disposal. An estranged lord Yamashiro decides to go alone and to fund his cause he steals gold from his lords gold mine, but as he’s so weak he cannot fight along so he hires out a group of ninja lead by Gemma Himuro to to kill the retainers, Jubei and Shinkuro are members of this ninja team and after the ordeal the ninjas are given the secret task of killing each other to eliminate everyone who knows about this undercover deal, Jubei realises what’s going on after killing his friend Shinkuro in self defense and managed to kill Gemma (who looks like Dolph Lundgren ) by cutting off his head… Set in Feudal Japan and being based on Makai Tensho by Futaro Yamada, the film strangely doesn’t really go into detail about the beginning of the original story but don’t worry you’ll soo be caught up. It’s also quite funny, the lead character Jubei Kibagami gets pulled into an impossible situation but remains the cool guy throughout and a true hero. I’m pretty sure the pitch went like this “let’s make 13 assassins but instead of having uniquely talented good guys, lets have some bad guys with demonic skills” BOOM! movie made. Hipster am I yes.Īfter watching the wonderful and charismatic remake 13 Assassins (2011) by Takashi Miike, I was trying to work out what the film reminded me of, eventually I pinned it, Ninja Scroll!! It’s not precise, there are other Samurai based films out there which are closer for example Lone Wolf and Cub / Shogun Assassin but Ninja Scroll is such a delightful to watch. but eventually I got into some other genres and then left it all behind when it became tooooooo computerised and cute, and err popular. I can’t believe this is my first Manga installment on the blog, but I have to start somewhere and I would have believed it would be with Akira (1988) or something cyber as that was always my main attraction to Japanese animation and Akira literally blew my away for years I was sketching scenes, trading cards and obsessing over rebuilding Tokyo. Starring: Koichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Daisuke Gori, Kareshi Aono.
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