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Band of Ninja
JAPAN · 1967

Band of Ninja

Nagisa Oshima
feudal revenge ninja rebellion peasant uprising experimental cinema manga adaptation
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Synopsis

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.

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