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Memoirs of a Lady Ninja

2009 · 89 min Adventure Fantasy
7.2 / 10 · TMDB

Blowing like a wind and a cloud, a blue-eyed female ninja with a painful destiny has arrived! A blue-eyed ninja, Hijiri, is a fierce and cold-blooded assassin. She encounters a thief after the scroll of esoteric immortality from the treasure house of a Christian daimyo, Rokusha, and she gets into a sword fight with him. In the close battle, she is wounded, but is rescued by a Christian named Seitaro, and they begin falling for each other. But her happy days don’t last. Openly critical of Christianity, “a bad foreign religion”, the Dainichi Shinkyo weaves dark intrigues to kill Hijiri and Christians.

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Original Title 隠密くノ一列伝 ~秘められた女忍び~
Year 2009
Country Japan
Genre Adventure, Fantasy
Director Jirō Ishikawa
Runtime 89 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.2/10 (4 votes)

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The film blends historical adventure with fantasy, prioritizing dynamic spectacle and melodrama over deep period authenticity. The plot moves swiftly from one clash to the next, weaving in a forbidden romance amidst religious persecution, serving as a stylized tale of a fatal warrior.

What lingers after the credits is the sense of a genre piece where convention trumps realism—a story of duty versus desire, told through the lens of bloody skirmishes and shadowy plots. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jirō Ishikawa

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