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Director Yoshitaka Yamaguchi’s sixteen-year career can be attributed aptly to having progressed under the auspices of celebrated auteur Takashi Miike. Such credits include assisting on titles like Blade Of The Immortal, Yakuza Apocalypse, Shield Of Straw and 2009’s Yatterman – all noteworthy additions for Yamaguchi best known for helming Samurai Cat, and 2017 beat ’em up thriller, Demekin. Fast forward to 2019 and with Yamaguchi now applying his craft to a heavy-hitting two-part dose of ninja action and spectacle, firstly with Last Ninja: Red Shadow, starring Kanchiro Kan (The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine) and Yusei Yuuki (Lupinranger VS Patranger VS Kyuranger). At the end of Edo era in Japan, when the reign of Samurai was also coming to an end, so-called Ninja was way behind the times. “Ryu”, who is a descendant of “Ge-Nin”, the lowermost of the Ninja society, was commanded to secretly take a princess out of the house […]

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