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This movie was disappointing. This is the live action version based on the popular Japanese manga "Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja scrolls" and the anime of the same name. Two hours isn't long enough to flesh out the characters and deliver a movie that lives up to the anime version.

Contemporary Twist to a Japanese samurai genre
By simply looking at the visuals of the DVD cover, it's plain obvious that it's catering for the younger audience. What astounds me even more is that rather than relying on the strength of stories and subtleties that Japanese movies are known for, Shinobi is an all-out action movie with emphasis on special effects (inspired by Lords of the Ring Trilogy), a hybrid of divide and conquer storyline, Romeo & Juliet fatal love story, and X-Men. As readers would have read from other reviews, there are two opposing clans with special powers and they are nemesis for four centuries. The old adages about fear of the unknown and the propensity of those in power to keep holding on to their power would induce the Shogun to manipulate the clans to fight to their deaths. Whilst the special effects are okay, we probably couldn't empathise too much with those special warriors because they are given too little screen time other than to display their prowess to move the movies along. Much screen time is given to the two main characters or love interests in this movie, Gonnosuke and Oboro. This movie, in a way, is a milestone for Japanese movie-making because it moves towards a drastically new direction in contrast with the Kurosawa's genre. Commendable watching.