# Ninja Scroll (1993)

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**Original title**: *獣兵衛忍風帖*
**Runtime**: 94 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Animation, Action
**Directed by**: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
**Written by**: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
**Starring**: Koichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Daisuke Gori, Ryuuzaburou Ootomo, Akimasa Omori

> *Feudal Japan—a time of danger, intrigue and deception . . .*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a wandering swordsman in feudal Japan, selling your skills. But a plague decimates a village, and then you're drawn into a web of warring clans. Kawajiri's hyperkinetic animation set a bar for action, influencing live-action cinema. The film pulses.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, surreal, unhinged

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