Shinobi no kuni

This story is based on novel by Ryo Wada, directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura. The main cast for this movie are Satoshi Ohno from a popular Japanese idol group named ARASHI, Satomi Ishihara and Yuri Chinen.This movie are full of amazing actions and intense scenes. Of course you'll satisfied with this movie.

If you can get past the first half an hour (as a non native language speaker) you get a good old school romp.

It is difficult to be completely fair about a Japanese ninja film I saw with some of the most surreal subtitles possible, "We will attack Iraq soon", "this is money....Yongle hundred money". To add to the confusion whoever was translating names made a splendid job with often quite literal translations, Big Meal, Ah and No Door amongst others, names that blended almost unobtrusively with the generally confusing goings on.

It was however enough to follow a film that I suspect was filmed in 2017 using 1950's script and technology, what was produced can be described as full ninja anime. To make up for the somewhat obscure start the film transitioned into what was an excellent portrayal of an archetypal ninja culture, warmongering, money hungry and fun hungry, martial art living badasses.

There were some sublime parts of this film that made it worth the watch.

A 7 for trying damn hard :D

Ohno Satoshi is the leader of the extremely popular idol group called Arashi. His singing, dancing and acting skills have been highly regarded. Almost all of the action scenes in this movie were done by himself (not stuntman), and he choreographed one action scene by combining dance moves with actions. Besides actions, this movie is not like any ninja movie you would have seen before. The director portrayed another face of ninjas that no one has seen before. There is a well balance of excitement, humour, love and tears in this movie which makes it very enjoyable.

In Iga, called the "land of stealth," ninjas spend all their time fighting and killing, with no more regard for humanity than animals have. The imperious warlord Oda Nobunaga has been invading and taking over province after province, but even he is wary of attacking Iga. The greatest ninja in Iga is Mumon, whose name means no-gate because no gate can be held against him; but Mumon (Satoshi Ohno) himself is quite a light-hearted guy whose main question about doing anything is "who will pay me?" When he is paid enough to kill the younger son of the Iga ruler, the older son swears vengeance and sets in train a series of events to bring Iga and Oda to the battlefield…. Evidently Satoshi Ohno, beyond being an actor/ninja warrior, is a dj and the leader of a J-pop band, and his breezy style for much of this film provides a great sense of ease, even comedy, but the underlying message of the film is far more harsh and, well, sad. An interesting mix of style versus substance, and definitely a different take on the Japanese historical film. The ending just might break your heart, though.

If you like Ninja movie, then consider watching this one. It was not an ordinary Ninja we used to watch. With its historical background, Mumon showed us the side of Ninja colony that we might not know yet. It has fair amount of comical action, also hilarious facial expressions that even though you don't understand what they say, you'd laugh. The cast can't be better, their fluid move for fighting scene is superb. You'll understand their feeling without understanding what they're saying. Watch it till the end, you'll find Mumon not just giving you good laugh, but a deep thought in the end; 'are we human enough?' Give this movie a try if it showed in your country, since it was not made world wide, only to several Japanese movie event.