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Moonshadow Ninja Scroll: Twenty-One Eyes (1963)
Directed by Junji Kurata
Overview
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.
Length 86 minutes
Actors
Hiroki Matsukata | Kotaro Satomi | Jûshirô Konoe | Ichirô Nakatani | Kikuko Hojo | Yuriko Mishima | Harumi Sone | Koji Arima | Kenjiro Uemura | Akio Kobori | Kyônosuke Murai | Hiroshi Fujikawa | Masuo Kamiki | Minken Karasawa | Kentaro Ozato | Yôichi Ôyama | Jun Harukawa | Kuniomi Kitani | Kunijirô Yanagi | Mitsukazu Kawamura | Eiji Minakata | Koji Kiyomura | Ichirô Okuni | Tokumaro Dan | Keiichi Taki | Kiyoshi Tomomura | Heitaro Gori | Katsuro Ito