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Young Ninja Kanzo Hattori (Shingo Katori) of the Iga Clan is sent to
modern day Edo (= Tokyo) by his father (Shiro Ito) to make the first
person he meets his master and show himself to no one but him ... and the
first person Kanzo meets is young Kenichi (Yuri Chinen), a schoolboy with
few friends who is an outcast in his class, an d who needs a friend like
Kanzo ... even if in busy Tokyo, Kanzo has a hell of a time hiding from
everyone else but Kenichi, and even in Kenichi's home he mustn't be seen
by his parents. Eventually, Kenichi falls in love with Midori (Rena
Tanaka), and to Kanzo's relief, Midori is blind, so there's no danger that
she can see him. Then Kanzo identifies Satoh (Gori) as a Koga Ninja, the
sworn enemies of the Iga Clan, but Satoh has long turned his back on Ninja
life and has since become one of Kenichi's teachers. But there's also
Kurakage (Takeshi Masu), another Koga Ninja Kanzo runs into, and he
immediately wants to annihilate the Iga Ninja, and to that end he kidnaps
Kenichi and turns the whole thing into a media spectacle, just to force
Kanzo to give up his ninja code and show himself in the open - and Kanzo
doesn't disappoint as he shows himself despite the many TV-cameras
directed at him ... and with the help of Satoh, who in the light of the
kidnapping has turned against his fellow Koga Ninja, Kanzo even manages to
free Kenichi, but fighting Kurakage one -on-one, he soon has to realize he
has met his match, or even more - when Kenichi interferes, and despite
being a mere boy, he tries to defend his friend the best he can. This
gesture moves Kurakage to such an extent that he gives up fighting and
doesn't even escape his certain deth when the whole place around him goes
up in flames ... (All the others manage to save themselves though, if
you must know.)
Based on an anime series from the 1970's, Nin
x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie is pretty much as childish and
silly as one expects it to be (and my synopsis probably suggets it to be,
too). But unfortunately I'm not talking about the good kind of childish
and silly here, just the kind in which a weak story is carried by lame and
repetitive jokes. Sure, Kanzo's attempts to hide himself from everyone are
amusing at first, but after a while , this joke loses its novelty value -
but it's played over and over again for more than an hour (or more than
half of the movie), and it's only then that the actual plot of the film
(in a nutshell: Kanzo vs Kurakage) starts to develop, which
eventually culminates in a disappointingly cheesy ending. Not worth your
time, actually.
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