Masked Ninja Akakage

仮面の忍者赤影

Aired: 1987 - 1988

An action anime based on Yokoyama Mitsuteru's period drama manga. Produced by Toei Doga and Yomiuri Advertising as a remake of the 1967 live-action drama that took the nation by storm. Set during the Sengoku period, the young ninja Akakage, clad in a crimson mask, teams up with Shirokage and Aokage on orders from Toyotomi Hideyoshi to battle sorcery-wielding factions such as the Kinmekyo and Manjitou. Reconstructing the dynamic appeal of the original manga as a TV anime, with cooperative team battles and confrontations against giant yokai, the series delivered thrilling ninja action against the fantastical landscape of feudal Japan, serving as an ambitious effort to convey the allure of ninja heroes to a new generation of viewers.