Kunoichi - Lady Ninja
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kunoichi - Lady Ninja |
| Original title | く ノ 一 忍 法帖 柳生 外 伝 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hitoshi Ozawa |
| script |
Junichi Inoue Hitoshi Ozawa |
| production |
Arai Yoshimi Tetsuji Hayashi |
| music | Torsten Rasch |
| camera | Shōji Ebara |
| cut | Kunihiko Ukai |
| occupation | |
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Kunoichi - Lady Ninja ( Japanese く ノ 一 忍 法帖 柳生 外 伝 ～ 江 戸 花 地獄 篇 ～ , Kunoichi Nimpōchō: Yagyū Gaiden - Edo Hana Jigoku Hen , dt. About: "The techniques of the female ninja: Side story of the Yagyū - chapter of the Edo -Blossom Hell ") is a Japanese martial arts film by the director Hitoshi Ozawa from 1998 and is based on motifs from the novel Yagyū Nimpōchō by Futaro Yamada , which was also adapted in the manga Yagyu Ninpo Cho: The Revenge of the Hori Clan . It is the 1st chapter of the 7th part of the Kunoichi Nimpocho film series. Originally released in theaters as Kunoichi Nimpōchō: Yagyū Gaiden (106 minutes), it was released on DVD in two separate chapters. The 2nd chapter Kunoichi Nimpōchō: Yagyū Gaiden - Aizu Yuki Jigoku Hen ( く ノ 一 忍 法帖 柳生 外 伝 ～ 会 津 雪 雪 地獄 篇 ～ , dt. About: "The techniques of the female ninja: Side story of the Yagyū - chapter of the Aizu snow hell" ) appeared in the German-speaking area as Kunoichi - Lady Ninja 2: Bloody Vengeance .
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Japan in the feudal Edo period of the Tokugawa Shogunate . The tyrannical prince of Aizu , Akinari Katō , is obsessed with sex and power and does not tolerate disobedience or criticism. The despot uses his privileged position to satisfy his own desires and punishes any violation of his commandments immediately with death. One day the prince falls in love with the attractive daughter of an indomitable subject of the Horii clan, who, however, refuses to surrender the chosen beauty, defies the prince's will and, together with his family, flees from his henchmen. The head of the clan and his relatives find a safe refuge in an unspecified place that also houses a venerable Catholic women's monastery , which men are not allowed to enter.
The angry ruler then sends a seven-member gang of demons, called "Seven Umbrellas", to find the beautiful woman he is looking for. The ninjas , equipped with a wide variety of superpowers, finally track down those wanted in the monastery, ignoring the law that only allows women to enter, and causing a real bloodbath among the Konvikt residents. Many innocent nuns find such a cruel death when all of a sudden, with the appearance of Princess Sen, all fighting comes to an abrupt halt. The presence of the powerful nobles confuses the unscrupulous aggressors; the villains eventually pull away. Only a few women survive the massacre, including Ochei, the daughter of the murdered head of the clan and the beauty that Kato claims for herself. The magical princess Sen swears bloody vengeance.
From seven surviving nuns, members of the legendary ninja clan of the Horii, the angry noblewoman forms a quick-witted troop for a bloody campaign of revenge against the overpowering "Seven Umbrellas". She is supported in this by a high-ranking monk along with the one-eyed samurai Jūbei, who teaches the women in combat and trains them to be Kunoichi . From now on, the avengers who have magical powers, together with their tricky teacher, who hides under a Hannja mask, fight the murderers and the instinctual shogun. Little by little, the thrown together team succeeds in confronting the ruler's henchmen and killing three, while the other bodyguards manage to escape to Aizu with the shogun. In the open end, however, the armed conflicts also lead to losses among the avengers, so that only five of them continue the hunt for the murderers of their families.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films believes that the film is irritating “because of its stereotypical design” and “ tells the story of the fight between women and men according to the same pattern” . The film magazine TV Spielfilm writes in its online edition that the film contains "crazy splatter and make-up effects" and is "a strange fantasy spectacle that is worth seeing even without extras."
Web links
- Kunoichi - Lady Ninja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kunoichi - Lady Ninja in the online movie database
- http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1998/dv001900.htm