Ninjas vs. machine guns in 1580? History class just got MURDERED.
The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.
Direction
Watanabe commits to every absurd frame
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn gore hits different in 1992
Sound
Synth score screaming over sword clangs
Director
Takashi Watanabe
Yasunori Matsumoto
Shishimaru (voice)
Yusaku Yara
Doma Jinnai (voice)
Ai Orikasa
Hayabusa (voice)
Kan Tokumaru
Momochi Sandayu (voice)
Kazuyuki Sogabe
Oda Nobunaga (voice)
Koji Tsujitani
Kojiro (voice)
Yuri Amano
Oyu (voice)
Yuzuru Fujimoto
Nagato (voice)
Masashi Hirose
Saburota (voice)
Michitaka Kobayashi
Kichihoushi (voice)
Naoki Tatsuta
Yurimaru (voice)
Nobuo Tobita
Giri (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director Takashi Watanabe's feature debut before he became synonymous with Slayers and Boogiepop.
Part of a weird 90s OVA trend where Sengoku-era Japan got cyberpunk'd—see also 'Ninja Scroll' and 'Demon City Shinjuku'.
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