# Death Shadows (1986)

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**Original title**: *十手舞*
**Runtime**: 115 min
**Genres**: Action
**Directed by**: Hideo Gosha
**Written by**: Motomu Furuta
**Starring**: Mariko Ishihara, Masanori Sera, Mari Natsuki, Tsunehiko Watase, Takuzō Kawatani, Takeo Chii

> *Punish the wicked, but stay in the dark.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: dread, outsider, slow-burn

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