Kamen no Ninja Akakage Vol.1 "Kinmekyo Hen"

[Machine Translation] Masked Ninja Akagage" was Toei's first color special effects TV movie, based on the original story by Mitsuteru Yokoyama and broadcast from April 1967 to March 1968 on the Kansai Television and Fuji Television networks. It was popular among viewers as an unprecedented special effects period drama fantasy with its numerous superhuman ninjutsu techniques, giant karakuri robots, and outlandish monsters, and ignited a ninja boom. The first part, "Kinmekyohen," contains episodes 1 through 13. It depicts the fierce battle between the Hida ninja of Akakage, Aokage, and Shirokage and the Kasumidani Shichininshu led by Kouga Genshitsu. --When Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still Kinoshita Fujikichiro, a dubious religion called Kaname-kyo was prevalent south of Lake Biwa. It is said that those who do not believe in it will suffer a terrible haunting. What is it really? In order to find out the secret of the religion, Fujikichiro called a masked ninja from the country of Hida. His name is... "Akakage joins us! (from the opening narration)

横山光輝原作、1967年4月～1968年3月まで関西テレビ・フジテレビ系にて放送された東映初のカラー特撮テレビ映画「仮面の忍者 赤影」。超人的な忍術の数々や巨大からくりロボット、奇想天外な怪獣の登場など、これまでにない特撮時代劇ファンタジーとしてお茶の間で人気を呼び、忍者ブームに火をつけた。第一部「金目教篇」は、第1話～第13話を収録。赤影、青影、白影の飛騨忍者と甲賀幻妖斉が率いる霞谷七人衆との壮絶な戦いを描く。――豊臣秀吉がまだ木下藤吉郎だった頃、琵琶湖の南に金目教という怪しい宗教が流行っていた。それを信じない者は、恐ろしい祟りに見舞われるという。その正体はなにか?藤吉郎は金目教の秘密を探るため、飛騨の国から仮面の忍者を呼んだ。その名は・・・「赤影参上!」(オープニング・ナレーションより)