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The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.
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The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.
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Genre:Animation, Action, Adventure
Written By:Go Nagai
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Runtime:60 minutes
Studio:Nippon Columbia, Dynamic Planning, Minamimachi Bugyosho, Tokyo Kids
Cast
Takashi Watanabe
Director
Yasunori Matsumoto
Shishimaru (voice)
Yusaku Yara
Doma Jinnai (voice)
Ai Orikasa
Hayabusa (voice)
Kan Fujimoto
Momji (voice)
Kan Tokumaru
Momochi Sandayu (voice)
Kazuyuki Sogabe
Oda Nobunaga (voice)
Koji Tsujitani
Kojiro (voice)
Yuri Amano
Oyu (voice)
Yuzuru Fujimoto
Nagato (voice)
Jo Maemoto
Nagatoji (voice)
Kazunori Sogabe
Nobunaga (voice)
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