Watari, Ninja Boy 1966
– Daininjutsu eiga Watari (original title)
– 1h 23 min. | Animation, Adventure, Drama.
Storyline:
2 ninja clans are conned into fighting each other for years by their evil leaders! Watari; small hard as nails Ninja Boy saves the day!
User review:
Watari is a tale of a young Iga ninja boy in feudal Japan, and seems to be a children adventure film, although the plot is surprisingly complicated (internal ninja intrigues and laws) and there is a considerable amount of blood and death and even several dead children, something one would rather not except from such type of movie.
My reception of this film may be distorted, as I’m a huge fan of most things ninja, but I greatly enjoyed the movie. The plot is captivating albeit a bit confusing, and the lead child actor seemed to be to be really good in the titular character’s role. One point of special notice is an use of a battle axes (including by Watari), something I don’t recall from any any other samurai-era picture.
Director: Sadao Funatoko
Writers: Masaru Igami, Shunichi Nishimura (screenplay)
Stars: Yoshinobu Kaneko, Chiyoko Honma, Fuyukichi Maki
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Also Known As: Watari, Ninja Boy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202095/
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 1.46 GiB
Duration : 1 h 26 min
Overall bit rate : 2 409 kb/s