Band of Ninja (1967)
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.
Director:
Nagisa Ōshima
Writers:
Nagisa Ōshima, Mamoru Sasaki.
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Rokkō Toura as Kagemaru |
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Kei Satō as Sakagami Shuzen |
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Kei Yamamoto as Yûki Jûtarô |
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Hōsei Komatsu as Onkichi |
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Noriko Matsumoto as Hotarubi |
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Hideo Kanze as Kamiizumi Nobutsuna |
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Hikaru Hayashi as Kinoshita Tôkichiô |
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Yoshiyuki Fukuda as Mufu Dojin |
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Fumio Watanabe as Oda Nobunaga / Kennyo |
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Akiko Koyama as Akemi |
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Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Akechi Mitsuhide |
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Shoichi Ozawa as Narrator |
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Nobuo Tanaka as Yagyu Muneyoshi |
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Toshirō Hayano as Raiun-to shuryo |
| Writing | Sanpei Shirato | Comic Book |
| Writing | Nagisa Ōshima | Screenplay |
| Writing | Mamoru Sasaki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Sanpei Shirato | Writer |
| Directing | Nagisa Ōshima | Director |
| Production | Masayuki Nakajima | Producer |
| Production | Takuji Yamaguchi | Producer |
| Production | Nagisa Ōshima | Producer |
| Camera | Akira Takada | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hikaru Hayashi | Original Music Composer |