Movies Shinobi: Heart Under Blade 2005

[Guel Jeturk]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade is a 2005 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Ten Shimoyama and written by Kenya Hirata. It is an adaptation of Futaro Yamada's novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, although the characters are highly altered.

The clash between two ninja clans, Iga and Kouga, and the fated love between Gennosuke (Kouga) and Oboro (Iga).

Two mercenary clans have been waging a vendetta against each other over hundreds of years. Around 1614 Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, perceives the threat posed by the two clans. Attempting to consolidate his reign, he deliberately stirs up their feud by inviting the clans to choose their five best warriors to fight to the death.

The leaders of the two clans respectively, Kouga Gennosuke (Joe Odagiri) and Oboro (Yukie Nakama), who have secretly married, are unwillingly embroiled in the political plot, they have to make a difficult decision.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

This kinda makes me think of a live action version of Basilisk.

 

[rematche]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade is a 2005 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Ten Shimoyama and written by Kenya Hirata. It is an adaptation of Futaro Yamada's novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, although the characters are highly altered.

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The clash between two ninja clans, Iga and Kouga, and the fated love between Gennosuke (Kouga) and Oboro (Iga).

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Two mercenary clans have been waging a vendetta against each other over hundreds of years. Around 1614 Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, perceives the threat posed by the two clans. Attempting to consolidate his reign, he deliberately stirs up their feud by inviting the clans to choose their five best warriors to fight to the death.

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The leaders of the two clans respectively, Kouga Gennosuke (Joe Odagiri) and Oboro (Yukie Nakama), who have secretly married, are unwillingly embroiled in the political plot, they have to make a difficult decision.

i actually saw this movie years ago. it's good. i like watching classical and old samurai movies, like yojimbo.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

I wish I could like this more because I enjoy cheesy ninja stuff, but I could never get past how cheap it looks or the bad acting. It wasn’t particularly great when it was new and age hasn’t been kind.
Also you can’t just throw two star-crossed lovers on the screen and expect us to feel something without establishing them as actual characters. Don’t take lessons from George Lucas when it comes to romance.

Sorry for being so negative I just have nothing positive to say about this film. The 90s and 2000s just weren’t a good time for jidai geki