Shinobi No Mono watch order

There are 9 Shinobi No Mono films, about 13.4 hours in total. The first was released in 1962, the latest in 1970. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.

A series of films depicting Goemon Ishikawa, a famous 16th-century Japanese outlaw hero who fought against samurai warlords.

1. 1

   Ninja, A Band of Assassins (1962)

   1 Dec 1962 · 104 min

   Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

2. 2

   Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance (1963)

   6 Aug 1963 · 93 min

   [Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of cap

3. 3

   Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection (1963)

   28 Dec 1963 · 86 min

   [Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of T

4. 4

   Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege (1964)

   10 Jul 1964 · 87 min

   [Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ones who can penetrate the fortress, but unfortunately for Ieyasu, Kirigakure Saizo and the other Toyotomi ninja can just as easily get out. As armies

5. 5

   Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo (1964)

   30 Dec 1964 · 91 min

   [Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable ser

6. 6

   Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965)

   12 Jun 1965 · 89 min

   [Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughte

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   Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back (1966)

   12 Feb 1966 · 86 min

   [Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura.

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   Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies (1966)

   10 Dec 1966 · 86 min

   [Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the kil

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   Mission: Iron Castle (1970)

   7 Feb 1970 · 79 min

   The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fil

Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.