Ninja Resurrection (Essential Anime Collection)

Ninja Resurrection (Essential Anime Collection)
by Yasunori Urata

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Actor: Amber Allison, Arisa And?, Kinry? Arimoto, Takeshi Aono, Tom Bartling
Director: Yasunori Urata
Writer: Futaro Yamada
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Studio: A.D.V. Films

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Movie Review: NOT a Ninja Scroll Sequel
Summary: 1 Stars

Like pretty much everyone else, I rented this one years ago, thinking it was the ninja scroll sequel (which I loved). It's not.

It's a poorly animated "ova" that looks like the first 3 episodes to an aborted tv series. The story is very disjointed and not really tied up at the end.

The movie is extremely gory and uneccesarily so. I LOVE Berserk, so I'm not on the squeamish side of anime, but this borders on hentai. They kill kids and have an excessively graphic rape scene.

Oh, yeah additionally they openly mock the Christian faith. Again, I'm not easily offended, nor do I claim to be a great moral crusader or anything, but the people who made this one are EXTREMELY biased against western culture. Basically the moral is "Christianity is teh evil and turns you into Satan rape monsters". Oh also, despite being set in the middle ages, one of the guys has a rocket launcher. Anachronism, much?

Honestly, one of the worst animes I've ever seen, Not funny bad either. Manos hands of fate bad.

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Summary of Ninja Resurrection (Essential Anime Collection)

The first installment in this new OAV series brings back the character of Jubei Yagyu, but not the artists or story line from the popular 1993 feature Ninja Scroll. A baroque mixture of samurai adventures, historic figures (Jubei and Shiro were real people), pseudo-Christian millenialism, and standard anime action, Resurrection is set at the close of the civil wars that led to the unification of Japan in the 17th century. Tokisada Shiro Amakusa is regarded as the Son of God by a group of Christians rebelling against the newly established Tokugawa Shogunate. Jubei tries to negotiate Shiro's surrender to end the rebellion, but fails. The resulting slaughter of Shiro's followers sets in motion a complicated plot involving a prophecy that if the new Savior is rejected, he will be reborn as Satan. Resurrection is exceedingly gory, even by anime standards: heads are split open, a violent rape ends in a bloodbath, a disemboweled warrior fights with his intestines flailing like tentacles, crows pick at cadavers. At a time when Hollywood films and TV shows are being blamed for youth violence in America, viewers may wonder why such bloody entertainments haven't produced real-life violence in Japan. --Charles Solomon

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