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Band of Ninja

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Original title: Ninja bugei-cho (Band of Ninja)
Year: 1967
Running time: 135 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Screenwriter: Nagisa Ôshima, Mamoru Sasaki. Manga: Sampei Shirato
Cast: Animation
Music: Hikaru Hayashi
Cinematography: Animation, Akira Takada
Producer: Oshima Productions, Sozosha
Genre: Animation. Action. Drama. War | Manga. Historical. 16th Century. Ninjas. Samurai. Feudal Japan. Experimental Cinema. Adult Animation
Synopsis: Author/illustrator Sanpei Shirato’s Ninja bugei-cho was a popular graphic novel serialized across Japan in the 1960s, well loved by students and leftist radicals for its tale of a young boy’s alliance with a band of ninja during a peasant uprising. Oshima takes an experimental approach to adaptation; out of deep respect for Shirato’s artistry (and his usual cinematic prankishness), he films Shirato’s images as they appear on the page, like an anime version of Sans soleil, with the camera hovering and darting over each “scene” to provide movement and life. Adding voices, sound effects, and a narration that connects the plot’s myriad strands, Oshima intervenes in yet another unexpected genre to create a fascinating treatise on cinema, narrative, and action.

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Band of Ninja

1967

Nagisa Ôshima

5.7

(33)