Shinobi - Band Of Assassins / Revenge / Resurrection Blu-Ray

It is the 16th century and Japan is in chaos. Samurai clans are fighting battles over who will rule the country, while warlords hire ninjas to spy on and assassinate their rivals. Goemon, an ambitious young member of a ninja family, is thrown into the turmoil of Japanese history when his village is destroyed by the leading warlord Oda Nobunaga, who has sworn to eradicate the ninjas in his quest for absolute power. Driven by revenge, Goemon uses every weapon in his arsenal to overthrow Oda and prove that a ninja is a one-man army. Starring "the Japanese James Dean" Raizo Ichikawa (Eyes of Death, Conflagration) alongside Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf, Bounty Hunter trilogy) and Ayako Wakao (Elegant Beast, Red Angel), the Shinobi series became an epoch-making success and a social phenomenon that left a deep mark on 1960s Japan, from children's playgrounds to the left-wing counterculture. It was packed with spectacular and often copied action scenes and also established the basic rules for all ninja films that followed, with classic tropes such as shuriken throwing stars and the iconic black mask and costume.

BONUS MATERIAL

High-definition digital transfer of each film on two discs

Uncompressed mono PCM audio

Interview with Shozo Ichiyama, artistic director of the Tokyo International Film Festival, about director Satsuo Yamamoto

Visual essay on the ninja in Japanese cinema by film scholar Mance Thompson

Interview with film critic Toshiaki Sato about star Raizo Ichikawa

Trailers

New and improved optional English subtitles