# Shogun's Ninja (1980)

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**Original title**: *忍者武芸帖 百地三太夫*
**Runtime**: 117 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure
**Directed by**: Norifumi Suzuki
**Written by**: Fumio Kōnami, Ichirō Ōtsu
**Starring**: Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Yuki Ninagawa, Isao Natsuyagi, Asao Koike

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You command a warlord’s elite force in 16th-century Japan tracking a vanished clan’s gold. He sends you after two daggers that unlock the treasure’s hiding place, but the search twists through decades of war and ritual. Suzuki lets the gleam of steel and ritual shadows linger past the blade fights.

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