Band of Ninja (1967) [Trailer]

Description

story about the son of an assassinated feudal lord in the Muromachi period, who attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime. Oshima's treatment is a literal presentation of Shirato's work, edited from photography of actual comic book pages that are animated through the movement of the camera alone. At a time when Japan's theatrical and television animation industries were shifting to the " ...