Genre: Animation, Drama
Description: Also known as Manual of Ninja Martial Arts, the only animation 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.

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