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Did you know. "Kage no Gundan Bakumatsu Hen" is a Japanese TV Jidaigeki (Japanese period story)/ Ninja drama, featuring Sonny Chiba. The 13 episodes of the drama were aired from 10/7/1985 to 12/30/1985 on Fuji TV from 22:00 to 22:54 as the 5th season of the "Kage no Gundan/ Army of Shadows" series after "Hattori Hanzo: Kage no Gundan (1980 ...
Shadow Warriors (影の軍団, Kage no Gundan, lit. "Army of Shadows") is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s. The first season was a reimagining of the film Kage no Gundan: Hattori Hanzō directed by Eiichi Kudo which was released in 1980. [1]
In the first series he played Hattori Hanzō III, in second one he played Tsuge Shinpachi, in the third one he played Tarao Hanzō, in the fourth series and in Bakumatsu Hen, he played Hattori Hanzō XV. In the 2003 direct-to-DVD series Shin Kage no Gundan he played Hattori Hanzō I. Cast. Sonny Chiba. Hattori Hanzō.
Feb 28, 2010 · Kage no Gundan IV: Bakumatsu Hen (1985) - 40 episodes. Shin Kage no Gundan (2003) - 6 direct to video episodes. Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan. The first season ran in 1980 with 27 episodes. In this series, Sonny Chiba plays the ninja Hattori Hanzo III.
Season by season, the generations of the Hattori family are chronicled. These break down into Hattori Hanzo: Kage no Gundan, twenty-seven episodes (1980); Kage no Gundan II, twenty-six episodes (1981-1982); Kage no Gundan III, twenty-six episodes (1982); & Kage no Gundan IV: Bakumatsu-hen, forty episodes (1985).
Under the leadership of Hattori, Hanzou III the Iga ninja of Edo try to maintain the peace and order of feudal Japan (1651), as the Shadow Warriors (Kage no Gundan). After Hattori, Hanzou II displeased the Shogun (and lost his head) the Iga were excilled.
Chiba played different ninja characters in each series. In the first series he played Hattori Hanzō III, in second one he played Tsuge Shinpachi, in the third one he played Tarao Hanzō, in the fourth series and in Bakumatsu Hen, he played Hattori Hanzō XV.
