Death Shadows

You're a condemned man, spared to serve as a ninja assassin. But your past resurfaces in the form of a daughter you thought lost, now entangled with your target. Ocho soon joins the shadows. Gosha's jidaigeki films treat revenge as a generational curse.

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Hideo Gosha directed Death Shadows in 1986. See Hideo Gosha's full filmography, where to start with Hideo Gosha, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hideo Gosha.

Death Shadows was released in 1986 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.