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Set immediately after the Japanese Warring States Period (Sengoku period), Iga and Kouga, two ninja clans that produced powerful ninjas for warlords, have been waging a vendetta against each other over hundreds of years.
Around 1614, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the highest ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, perceived the threat posed by the ninjas of Iga and Koga. Attempting to consolidate his reign, he deliberately stirred up the feud between the two clans by inviting them to choose their five best ninja warriors to have a fight to the death (see the list of their 6 top ninjas of Iga and Kouga - see below "Who are list of Ninjas of Iga and Kouga"). Designated as the leaders of the two clans respectively, Kouga Gennosuke (Joe Odagiri) and Oboro (Yukie Nakama), who were secretly married, are unwillingly embroiled in the political plot. Hence, they have to make a difficult decision between their love and clans.
Initially, being peaceful and knowing the preciousness of life, they tried their utmost to prevent this meaningless and brutal fight by questioning the shogunate's motives. After the deaths of all their comrades during several fights, however, they gradually accepted their inevitable fate.
In the last fight, Kouga Gennosuke chose not to defend himself and allowed his lover Oboro to kill him, thus letting the clan of Iga "win". Meanwhile, Tokugawa Ieyasu sent his armies to exterminate ninja villages. To accomplish Gennosuke's hope of saving the villages, Oboro implores Tokugawa Ieyasu not to destroy the villages and, as a show of her sincerity, blinds herself, thereby destroying her most powerful weapons, her eyes (which possessed the power to destroy an enemy from within the minute they make eye contact with her, a technique called "Piercing Eyes" ("Hagen no Dō" lit. "the pupil of annihilation").
Moved profoundly by Oboro, Ieyasu withdrew his armies and issued an injunction to protect the ninja villages. According to the movie, the ninjas of the villages lived on peacefully. Their descendants continue to live today.
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last update : 01/05/2009
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