NINJA SCROLL

director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

(Wicked City,Vampire Hunter D,The Animatrix,Demon City Shinjuku)

character design: Yutaka Minowa

(The Animatrix,Escaflowne: The Movie,Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis,Vampire Hunter D)

release date: june 5 1993

ninja scroll follows the exploits of wandering swordsman Jubei Kibagami- a character based on the samurai folk hero Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi and the novels of Futaro Yamada.

It plays into folk legends heavily..a brave and honest samurai with a blessed sword capable of cutting anything.

jubei is inadvertently drawn into a war when he rescues Kagero (Mochizuki Koga Ninja) from being raped by tessai, one of the eight devils of kimon and employed by the dark shogun.

Tokugawa shogunate spy Dakuan appears and informs jubei the rest of the devils will stop at nothing to get revenge for the death of tessai and poisons jubei to guarantee his help in determining the connection between the eight devils and the plague in Shimoda village.

Ninja Scroll is a masterpiece of japanese animation alongside works like AKIRA and Ghost in the Shell. these days animation has become watered down for the masses...computers have sped up production to the point companies concentrate on weekly T.V. series and have forgotten their roots. this movie is a example of what anime used to be...adult entertainment for hardcore nerds like me.

definitely must see anime

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