Band of Ninja

Band of Ninja (1967) is a animation, drama film directed by Nagisa Ōshima rated 4.8/10.

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.

Cast

Rokkō Toura

Kagemaru

Kei Satō

Sakagami Shuzen

Kei Yamamoto

Yûki Jûtarô

Hōsei Komatsu

Onkichi

Noriko Matsumoto

Hotarubi

Hideo Kanze

Kamiizumi Nobutsuna

Hikaru Hayashi

Kinoshita Tôkichiô

Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Mufu Dojin

Fumio Watanabe

Oda Nobunaga / Kennyo

Akiko Koyama

Akemi

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Akechi Mitsuhide

Shoichi Ozawa

Narrator