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Ninja Scroll

Jūbei Ninpūchō

1993

Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Animation

7.3

12,410

Animation. Action. Adventure. Fantasy Jubei is wandering noble sword for hire, but when a chance meeting leads him to save young ninja woman from rape he makes enemies with a group of demonic humans. Jubei and the woman part ways, but later a government spy forces Jubei to join up with her again and investigate the mysterious death of an entire village. The investigation reveals a conspiracy involving the demons and a man from Jubei’s past who is supposed to be dead. As ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Henry Barnes The Guardian	"A whipcrack-quick race from one hallucinogenic foe to the next that glances across Japanese politics (...) but never lets reality get in the way of a hearty bout of blood-letting.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jeremy Aspinall Radio Times	"No-nonsense quest movie is chock-full of bloody slice-and-dice action, suitably grotesque villains and life-and-death confrontations (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Theron Martin Anime News Network (ANN)	"[It] stands even to this day as anime's defining work of hyperviolence and the standard-setter for all super-power ninja titles that followed."	POS
United States	TV Guide	"[It] boasts some of the most stunning production design and background art of any anime production to date (...) For fans of Japanese animation at its most colorful, stylized, and ultraviolent, the film delivers the goods (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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