SHINOBI: REVENGE (1963) Radiance Films Blu-ray Screenshots
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SHINOBI: REVENGE (1963)
aka SHINOBI NO MONO 2: VENGEANCE
Label: Radiance Films
Region Code: A, B
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 93 Minutes 19 Seconds
Audio: Japanese 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.43:1)
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Cast: Raizo Ichikawa, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Saburo Date, So Yamamura, Eijiro Tono, Shiho Fujimura
The fast-moving sequel, also directed Satsuo Yamamoto, picks up pretty much where the first left off, with the ninja sects pretty much destroyed by the Samurai warlord Nobunaga's forces, but the surviving Goeman flees to the countryside with his wife and attempts to foster a young family with the arrival of their infant son, only to have Nobunaga send men to hunt him down, and when they do they burn his son to death in a fire! Nobunaga manages to escape with his wife and sets again vows to kill the warlord. This time there are other factions vying for control of the territory with all manner of intriguing subplots, including the warlord's much put upon general Akechi Mitsuhide (So Yamamura, Gung Ho) turning against his master, and usurping power in a rebellion only to be dispatched himself fairly quickly. With Nobunaga gone his protégé Hideyoshi (Eijirô Tôno, Tora! Tora! Tora!) steps in to fill the void, crushing Mitsuhide's coup, and aligning himself with other factions to again destroy the would-be ninja rebel clans. There are numerous story threads at play, more intense, action-packed battlefield fighting and stealth ninja tactics, as the heroic Goeman makes his way to the warlord's palace, with the help of legendary ninja Hattori Hanzo (Saburo Date, Wolf Guy). This sequel also has its share of gruesome violence, it starts off with an infant thrown in the fire, and continues with several instances of seppuku with blood pouring from mouths, and another sequence of fifteen ninjas being mowed down by new-fangled gunfire, in the aftermath their decapitated heads then displayed on pikes, and another personal loss for our hero! The film ends on a bit of a cliffhanger with Goeman being apprehended during a failed assassination attempt being lead to his seemingly inevitable death at the hands of his captors to a vat of boiling oil!