# Band of Ninja (1967)

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**Original title**: *忍者武芸帳*
**Runtime**: 120 min
**Genres**: Animation, Drama, Action, War
**Directed by**: Nagisa Ōshima
**Written by**: Nagisa Ōshima, Mamoru Sasaki, Sanpei Shirato
**Starring**: Rokkō Toura, Kei Satō, Kei Yamamoto, Hōsei Komatsu, Noriko Matsumoto, Hideo Kanze

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a lord’s son in 16th-century Japan when your father falls to Oda Nobunaga’s blade. You track a ghost named Kagemaru who teaches peasants his dying art. The ink bleeds off scroll-like frames into live motion.

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