

Jubei, who had been forced to kill his comrades to survive, decapitated Gemma in revenge Gemma survived due to his immortality. Jubei learns from Dakuan that the leader of the Devils is Himuro Gemma ( 氷室 弦馬, Himuro Genma), the former Yamashiro ninja leader, who had ordered his team's members to kill each other to cover up the location of the goldmine five years earlier. To ensure his compliance, Dakuan stabs Jubei with a poisoned shuriken, and promises to give him an antidote once the mission is complete. Dakuan ( 濁庵, Dakuan), a Tokugawa spy, blackmails Jubei into helping him kill the remaining Devils. She is rescued by Kibagami Jubei ( 牙神 獣兵衛, Kibagami Jūbē), a mercenary ex-Yamashiro ninja, who fights and eventually kills Tessai. The sole survivor, the kunoichi Kagero ( 陽炎, Kagerō), is captured by a Devil, Tessai ( 鉄斎, Tessai), who attempts to rape her. While investigating the deaths, a Mochizuki Kōga ninja team is massacred by the Devils. The ship runs aground onto Mochizuki territory ( 望月藩, Mochizuki-han) in a storm, and the Eight Devils of Kimon ( 鬼門八人衆, Kimon Hachininshū), a ninja team with supernatural powers in the employ of the Yamashiro, kill the people of the nearby Shimoda Village ( 下田村, Shimoda-mura) to keep the gold shipment a secret. The Shogun of the Dark intends to use the gold to buy advanced Spanish weaponry and overthrow the current government, the Tokugawa Shogunate. In Edo period- Japan, the Yamashiro clan ( 山城藩, Yamashiro-han) mines gold in secret, and sends a shipment to the Toyotomi Shogun of the Dark ( 闇公方, Yami Kubō) as payment for his protection. Ī televised stand-alone sequel, Ninja Scroll: The Series, was aired in Japan in 2003. The film has been cited by The Wachowskis as an influence on the Matrix franchise, and resulted in Kawajiri later contributing to two segments of the anthology film The Animatrix. Alongside Akira and Ghost in the Shell, it was responsible for increasing the popularity of adult-oriented anime outside of Japan. Praised for its animation and action scenes, Ninja Scroll is regarded by many as one of the most influential anime films ever made. During his quest, he is aided by Dakuan, an elderly but crafty government spy, and Kagero, a Kōga kunoichi whose body is infused with poisonous toxins. The film takes place in feudal Japan and follows Kibagami Jubei, a mercenary swordsman who battles the Eight Devils of Kimon, a team of ninjas with supernatural powers who are intent on overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate. Ninja Scroll was theatrically released in Japan on June 5, 1993, and received an English- dubbed release produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in Western countries through MGM/UA Home Video (through Warner Home Video) in 1994.

The film was a co-production between JVC, Toho and Movic, with Madhouse serving as the animation studio. "Jubei's Ninja Chronicles") is a 1992 Japanese animated jidaigeki- chanbara film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, starring the voices of Kōichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Daisuke Gōri, Toshihiko Seki and Shūichirō Moriyama. Ninja Scroll ( Japanese: 獣兵衛忍風帖, Hepburn: Jūbē Ninpūchō, lit.
