Trailer: Koichi Sakamoto’s Superbly Violent Genre Thriller NINJA VS SHARK Teases The First Massacre Of 2023
The promotional campaign for Koichi Sakamoto’s latest spectacle, Ninja VS Shark has been a bit stealthy since the West took notice back in January. It helps that we’ve had to wait until about last week to finally see some trailer footage and it looks about as glorious as folks could hope given the hype. In the Edo period, at the remote village of Okitsu, the evil cult leader Koushirou uses ninjutsu to ensorcell sharks and forces them to attack local pearl divers so the cult can steal the pearls from their mangled corpses. Desperate for help, the village chief hires Kotaro Shiozaki, a guard at a nearby temple, but Kotaro soon finds his path blocked by lady ninja Kikuma, and a gigantic shark that doesn’t seem like something from this world. It’s been years since Sakamoto’s done any feature work in the West. Indeed, many of us miss the potential […]
