![]() Colours aren’t as striking or as rich as one would hope for but this appears to be the intention of the animation director. The animation appears smooth and detailed and you would not think this is that animated over 20 years ago. ![]() ![]() The picture has been cleaned up to such extent that it’s a pretty much grainless picture. The pillarboxed transfer exhibits a pretty decent High Definition picture that promotes the film’s stylistic animation in every detail. Ninja Scroll is presented on Blu-ray with a MPEG4-AVC codec that preserves the films original 1.33:1 aspect ratio in 1080p/24p. The Blu-ray and DVD edition of Ninja Scroll are presented fully uncut It’s a fantastic animated film (one that spawned a spin off TV show) that really needs to be seen. Ninja Scroll has always been considered an integral part of any manga fan’s collection and 20 years after it was unleashed, it still stands today. Barely five minutes pass without the screen being splashed with blood in an orgy of bone crunching violence. Ninja Scroll is a perfect blend of Martial arts, the supernatural, monsters, sex and lots of violence. Ninja Scroll was one of the first initial Manga films, along with Akira, Wicked City & Ghost in the Shell, to arrive on western shores and open up the world to a new style of animation that hadn’t been seen before. Pitted against such merciless foes, only one thing is certain Jubei Kibagami must kill or be killed. Tricked into helping Kagero and Dakuan take down the Eight Devils, expert swordsman Jubei must push his finelyhoned fighting skills to the limit if he is to defeat his deadly adversaries, who include shadow assassin Shijima, blind warrior Utsutsu, explosives specialist Zakuro and, of course, the evil Himuro Genma himself. Rescued by wandering ronin Jubei Kibagami, the pair discover from shady shogunate spy Dakuan that Tessai is one of the Eight Devils of Kimon, a band of super ninja apparently led by Jubei’s old nemesis Himuro Genma, whom he insists that he killed years ago. Set during Japan’s Tokugawa period, Ninja Scroll opens with female ninja Kagero – the sole survivor of a squad sent to investigate a plagued village at the mercy of Tessai, a monster of a man who can turn his skin to stone.
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