MOVIE INFO
Title: Band of Ninja
Original Title: Ninja Bugei-Cho
Country: Japan
Year: 1967
Genre: Animation, Action, Jidaigeki
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Original Story: Sampei Shirato
Writers: Mamoru Sasaki and Nagisa Oshima
Cast: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Juro Hayano, Hikaru Hayashi...
Production: Oshima Productions and Sozosha
Runtime: 120 min.
Audio: Japanese
Subtitles: English embedded and English idx/sub
PLOT
Author/illustrator Sanpei Shirato’s Ninja bugei-cho was a popular graphic novel serialized across Japan in the 1960s, well loved by students and leftist radicals for its tale of a young boy’s alliance with a band of ninja during a peasant uprising. Oshima takes an experimental approach to adaptation; out of deep respect for Shirato’s artistry (and his usual cinematic prankishness), he films Shirato’s images as they appear on the page, like an anime version of Sans soleil, with the camera hovering and darting over each “scene” to provide movement and life. Adding voices, sound effects, and a narration that connects the plot’s myriad strands, Oshima intervenes in yet another unexpected genre to create a fascinating treatise on cinema, narrative, and action.
TECHNICAL INFO
General: band.of.ninja.1967.nagisa.oshima.dvdrip.x264.ac3.2.ch.mkv
Format: Matroska at 2 612 Kbps
Length: 2.18 GiB for 1h 59mn 40s 173ms
Video #0: AVC at 2 161 Kbps
Aspect: 676 x 456 (1.349) at 23.976 fps
Audio #0: AC-3 at 448 Kbps
Infos: 2 channels, 48.0 KHz
Language: ja
Text #0: VobSub
Language: en
LINKS
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062044/
ANN: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4544
Fansite: http://lancollective.altervista.org/shirato/index.htm (Italian and English)