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Hiroyuki Sanada, Mami Koyama, Tarô Ishida

An orphan named Taro killed who Tein-Hei told her was the killer of his family. Taro found out, years later that Tein-Hei is the true killer and the man he killed was his father. Taro's revenge attemp...( read more  read more... )ts start off a trail of assassinations and ninja swords fights spanning from Hokaido, Alaska to California where Tien-Hei's secrets gradually unfold. The revenge road leads to a climactic battle with Tien-Hei on the fall of Japan's Shogun-era.

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Directed by: Rintaro

Release Date: March 9, 1985

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  • Daishikaze
    July 10, 2008
    Daishikaze
    I'm seriously surprised to this day that this isn't a more well known film in the anime fandom. To me, its the best animated Ninja film of them all, and I'm including Ninja Scroll in that remark. Ninja Scroll was good, don't get me wrong, but I think people latch onto it more bec...( read more)ause of the shock value, what with the sexual bits and huge amounts of gore. Kamui has a bigger, grander feel to it, it doesn't go the shock value route, it goes for a more historical look, while still maintaining a degree of fantasy (which is important to note.). the story is this (abit spoilerish, so marked in red):

    A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After fulfilling that task, Jiro undergoes training to become a master assassin. Many years later, Jiro finds out that he was an orphan and his real father was Tarouza, who had worked for Tenkai until he aborted his mission when he fell in love with an Ainu woman. The young ninja discovers that the Shogunate was to retrieve the lost treasure of Captain Kidd and use it to once again isolate Japan from the rest of the world. Using the clues that Tarouza had kept secret, Jiro - along with the female ninja Oyuki and a slave named Sam - travels to Russia and America to search for the treasure in hopes of using it to extract revenge from Tenkai.

    There are moments where people bitch about how impossible it is historically because he meets so and so and does this or that, but seriously people, its fantasy! Lets have alittle suspension of disbelief shall we? These instances are not so major as to ruin the film, but some people make it a point to bitch and moan about one or two scenes in the whole movie as if the film was utterly destroyed by those moments. If you understand that this isn't meant to be a historically accurate film and that its based off of a series of novels, I think you can easily enjoy it. I say go to www.animeigo.com and go pick up a copy on DVD before they lose the rights to this film too.

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