Shinobi no mono: Band of Assassins (1962)

Review: Shinobi no mono: Band of Assassins (1962)

Director: Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa, Yūnosuke Itō, Shiho Fujimura, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Saburo Date,

Raizō Ichikawa
Raizō Ichikawa
Yūnosuke Itō
Yūnosuke Itō
Shiho Fujimura
Shiho Fujimura
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Saburo Date
Saburo Date

Plot: Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

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Recent Radiance releases include a pair of Italian police procedurals – Pietro Germi’s neorealist noit The Facts of Murder (1959) and Luigi Comencini’s satire on bourgeois hypocrisy The Sunday Woman (1975) – and some […]

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