~ Shinobi : Heart Under Blade ~

Review Jmovie untuk kali ni adalah movie 'Shinobi : Heart Under Blade'. Ok, Untuk movie nie aku bagi 3.5/5 bintang ja.... sebab apa aku bagi kurang??? Sebabnya adalah kerana aku tak puas tengok dorang lawan-lawan... sekejap sangat... setiap bahagian yang ada lawan-lawan nie mesti sekejap ja... baru nak fokus, dah abis lawan...kecewa betul la jiwa ini.... Jalan cerita & barisan pelakon boleh la tahan... kalau korang ada tengok 'Gokusen'... Heroin dalam movie neh adalah cikgu yang main dalam Gokusen tu la..... ^_^

Directed by Ten Shimoyama

Release date(s) : September 17, 2005 (Japan), February 6, 2007 (USA)

Running time : 107 min

 Shinobi - Heart Under Blade or Kouga Ninpouchou Basilisk - The Live-Action is a 2005 Japanese ninjutsu romance film directed by Ten Shimoyama and written by Kenya Hirata. The story is an adaptation of the novel, The Kouga Ninja Scrolls by Futaro Yamada, which depicts the clash between two ninja clans, Iga and Kouga, and the fated love between Gennosuke (Koga) and Oboro (Iga). The theme song of this movie was the number one hit, HEAVEN, by Ayumi Hamasaki. This movie won both best actor and best new actress awards at both the Kinema Junpo Awards and Yokohama Film Festival in 2006 according to the Internet Movie Database.

Plot :

Set immediately after the Japanese Sengoku period, Iga and Kouga, two clans that produce powerful ninja for warlords, have been waging a vendetta against each other over hundreds of years.

Around 1614, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ruler of Japan and the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, perceives the threat posed by the ninjas. Attempting to consolidate his reign, he deliberately stirs up the feud by inviting the clans to choose their five best warriors to fight to the death (see the list below). Designated as the leaders of the two clans respectively, Kouga Gennosuke (Joe Odagiri) and Oboro (Yukie Nakama), who have secretly married, are unwillingly embroiled in the political plot. Hence, they have to make a difficult decision.

Initially, being peaceful and knowing the preciousness of life, they try their utmost to prevent this meaningless and brutal fight by questioning the shogunate's motives. After the deaths of all their comrades, however, they gradually accept their fate.

In the last fight, Kouga Gennosuke chooses not to defend himself and allows his lover Oboro to kill him, thus letting the clan of Iga "win". Meanwhile, Ieyasu sends his armies to exterminate the ninja villages. To accomplish Gennosuke's hope of saving them, 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 possess a deadly technique called "Piercing Eyes".

Moved profoundly by Oboro, Ieyasu withdraws his armies and issues an injunction to protect the ninja villages. For several generations hence, the ninjas of the villages live peacefully.

 

Cast :

The list of six top ninja of Iga and Kouga, along with other characters.

Kouga

• Joe Odagiri as Kouga Gennosuke - leader - he has the power to see, react, and move at very high speeds.
• Muroga Hyouma - has abilities similar to a 6th sense (seeing enemies kilometers away)
• Mitsuki Koga as Chikuma Koshirou - no supernatural powers, best weapons user.
• Tomoka Kurotani as Kagero - poison specialist. Poison flows within her veins and she is able to breathe poison at enemies or poisoning them with a kiss.
• Houka Kinoshita as Kisaragi Saemon - he is able to assume the physical appearance of others and imitate their voice.
• Minoru Terada as Kouga Danjo

Iga

• Yukie Nakama as Oboro - leader - she has the "eyes of destruction", completely incapacitating an opponent with one glance
• Kippei Shiina as Yakushiji Tenzen - he is the host to parasitic worms which prevent him from aging and heal any wounds he sustained, allowing him to quickly recover from nearly any injury.
• Tak Sakaguchi as Yashamaru - he manipulates thin wires, using them like whips. The wires are also sharp enough to cut through various objects.
• Shun Ito as Mino Nenki - beastman that has a keen sense of smell
• Erika Sawajiri as Hotarubi - she uses some sort of dust that manipulates butterflies and moths.
• Riri as Ogen

Others

• Takeshi Masu as Kuroga Hyouma
• Masaki Nishina as Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi
• Toshiya Nagasawa as Yagyū Munenori
• Yutaka Matsushige as Hattori Hanzō
• Renji Ishibashi as Nankōbō Tenkai
• Kazuo Kitamura as Tokugawa Ieyasu

P/S : Sesiapa yang ada movie berkenaan denagan samurai neh...boleh la cadangkan dekat aku... hahaha! Aku nak layan...... (Credit to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHINOBI_Heart_Under_Blade)