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Release Date:
March 8, 1985
Original Title:
カムイの剣
Alternate Titles:
A Espada de Kamui
Dagger of Kamui
Kamui no ken
Revenge of the Ninja Warrior
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Animation
Production Companies:
KADOKAWA
Madhouse
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG JP: PG12
Runtime: 132
A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After fulfilling that task, Jiro undergoes training to become a master assassin. Many years later, Jiro finds out that he was an orphan and his real father was Tarouza, who had worked for Tenkai until he aborted his mission when he fell in love with an Ainu woman. The young ninja discovers that the Shogunate was to retrieve the lost treasure of Captain Kidd and use it to once again isolate Japan from the rest of the world. Using the clues that Tarouza had kept secret, Jiro - along with the female ninja Oyuki and a slave named Sam - travels to Russia and America to search for the treasure in hopes of using it to extract revenge from Tenkai.
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Animation Director:
Takuo Noda
Art Direction:
Takamura Mukuo
Cinematography:
Kinichi Ishikawa
Director:
Rintaro
Editor:
Osamu Tanaka
Key Animation:
Satoru Utsunomiya
Takashi Nakamura
Kyoko Matsubara
Shinji Otsuka
Shigetaka Kiyoyama
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Yasuomi Umetsu
Atsuko Fukushima
Kengo Inagaki
Kitaro Kosaka
Koji Morimoto
Reiko Kurihara
Nobumasa Shinkawa
Emi Hoshino
Novel:
Tetsu Yano
Original Music Composer:
Ryudo Uzaki
Eitetsu Hayashi
Painter:
Kazuo Oga
Producer:
Satoru Ikegami
Rintaro
Masao Maruyama
Haruki Kadokawa
Production Design:
Masao Maruyama
Screenplay:
Mori Masaki
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