Hattori Hanzo Kage no Gundan DVD Collection Vol.1 [Priced-down Reissue]

[Machine Translation] [In memoriam, Shinichi Chiba] This film was first broadcast on TV in 1980 and gained overwhelming popularity with its story of the dark deeds of Shinobi who endure hardships while hiding among the city's residents. The drama features intense sword fighting and unprecedented action scenes by JAC, led by action star Shinichi Chiba, who was at the height of his popularity at the time, a splendid cast including Teruhiko Saigo, Shohei Hino, Kirin Kiki, Satoshi Yamamura, Mikio Narita, and a staff and director skilled in period drama photography at Kyoto Studio, who created a drama with a profound sense of depth that is well worth watching. The drama is still wildly popular today. --In the reign of the fourth shogun, Iga ninja used to serve the Tokugawa family, but the Hattori family was exiled or destroyed during the reign of the second shogun, Hattori Hanzo, and the Kouga were active as a covert force for the Tokugawa shogunate. The Iga ninja were scattered in the countryside, hiding their identities and surviving while hoping for the revival of the Hattori family. Hanzo Hattori III, the chieftain of the Iga ninja, is the master of a bathhouse, and together with a "shadow army" organized by Iga ninja scattered throughout Edo, he fights back against the Kouga, who want to eradicate the Iga, and sometimes gets involved in power struggles and intrigues of the shogunate, while waging a dark battle that never appears on the surface of history. --The story is told through the eyes of a young man who is a member of the Koga Shu.

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[追悼・千葉真一] 1980年にテレビ放送がスタートした本作は、市井にまぎれ苦境に耐える忍たちの暗躍の物語で圧倒的人気を博した。当時人気絶頂のアクションスター千葉真一が率いていたJACによる激しい殺陣やかつてないアクションシーン、西郷輝彦、火野正平、樹木希林、山村聰、成田三樹夫といった豪華な共演陣、さらに京都撮影所の時代劇撮影に長けたスタッフ・監督らによる見応えのある重厚感溢れるドラマは今なお熱狂的人気を誇る。――四代将軍家綱の治世、かつては徳川家に仕えた伊賀の忍者衆であったが、二代目服部半蔵の代に服部家は改易・取り潰しとなり、甲賀衆が幕府の隠密として活躍していた。伊賀忍者たちは在野に散り、服部家再興を願いながら己の身分を隠し生き永らえていた。伊賀忍者衆の頭領・三代目服部半蔵は湯屋の主人として市井に紛れながら、江戸に散らばる伊賀者を組織した"影の軍団"と共に、伊賀衆を根絶やしにせんとする甲賀衆を迎え撃ち、時に幕府の権力争いや陰謀に巻き込まれながら決して歴史の表には出ない、闇の戦いを繰り広げてゆく――。