Ninja bugei-cho (1967)
Directed by
Nagisa Oshima
Also Known As:
Band of Ninja
Manual of Ninja Martial Arts
Tales of the Ninja
Runtime: 120 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subs: E/F/S/I/P/G/R
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062044/
The only animated film made by Oshima in new wave period. A lost masterpiece.
Director Nagisa Oshima teams with comic-strip artist Shirato Sampei in this feature. Still pictures are used as some of Japan's more recognizable thespians provide the voices to tell the story. The ninja warriors use their powers to become invisible, walk on water, and climb castle walls. — Dan Pavlides
Also known as Manual of Ninja Martial Arts, this rare cartoon from Japanese New Wave maestro Nagisa Oshima is as provocative as one would expect from such a remarkable filmmaker. The film follows Sanpei Shirato's classic comic story about the son of an assassinated feudal lord in the Muromachi period, who attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime. Oshima's treatment is a literal presentation of Shirato's work, edited from photography of actual comic book pages that are animated through the movement of the camera alone. At a time when Japan's theatrical and television animation industries were shifting to the "limited animation" techniques that are still common today, Oshima's confrontational approach pushes animation to its absolute "limit," encouraging viewers to reconsider their relationship to the moving picture and question the differences of animated film itself.
One of Oshima's more unusual films was Band of Ninja (1967), an adaptation of the popular manga by Sampei Shirato, Ninja Bugei-cho, a 16th-century saga of oppressed peasants and deadly ninja. It is not a live-action film, or even an animated one; Oshima simply photographed close-ups of Shirato's drawings and added voices.
A Japanese animation depicting the 16th century of Japan where many lords fight for power. A new method is used to make the work with a budget one-fifth of ordinary movies, but is excellent in its editing and music.
[anim) Ninja bugei-cho - Band of Ninja (1967, Nagisa Oshima)-divx-mp3-by auess.avi 
Ninja bugei-cho (1967) EnFrSpItPtGeRu Subspack.rar 
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This delicious-looking movie made me remember another one that is NOT avaliable yet on emule/BT ... don't know if it could be on DirectConnect or any other p2p , Irc or whatever ... So i post some info here just in case anybody see this gem floating out there ( check the names involved in this project 8O ) :
