# Seventeen Ninja (1963)

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**Original title**: *十七人の忍者*
**Runtime**: 99 min
**Genres**: Action
**Directed by**: Yasuto Hasegawa
**Written by**: Kaneo Ikegami
**Starring**: Kōtarō Satomi, Jūshirō Konoe, Yuriko Mishima, Ryutaro Otomo, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Tokue Hanazawa

> *A film as hidden as the ninja*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You’re the last surviving Iga ninja, barely out of training, slipping through the castle’s shadowy corridors while a hunter with your entire playbook shadows you at every turn. Then you realize the castle is already yours to lose. The films leave you with a line of silent backflips dissolving into snow.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, neon-soaked, outsider, slow-burn

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