Kabamaru the Ninja Boy (1983)
1h 35m
Running Time
August 6, 1983Release Date
Kabamaru the Ninja Boy (1983)
1h 35m
Running Time
August 6, 1983Release Date
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Plot.
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his grandfather’s mistress, who is a school director. He is asked to help out on struggles against other schools, as he is master of the ninja mystical arts. As time passes he will make lots of friends as well as enemies, and fall in love with Mai.
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Cast & Crew.
Takagi Junya
Kirino Hayate
Sonny Chiba
Saizo
Strong Kongo
Actor
Hikaru Kurosaki
Kabamaru
Hiroyuki Sanada
Shizune
Norifumi Suzuki
Director
Naomi Morinaga
Kaoru Nonokusa
Etsuko Shihomi
Actress
Kumiko Takeda
Mai
Keizo Kanie
Nakao
Yukiji Asaoka
Ran Okubo
Yukio Nagasaki
Screenplay
Kentaro Haneda
Original Music Composer
Isamu Ichida
Editor
Yoshikazu Sano
Art Direction
Yu Azuki
Original Story
Seiko Shimura
Screenplay
Izumi Toyoshima
Producer
Teruhiko Arakawa
Sound Recordist
Kiyoshi Kitasaka
Director of Photography
Toshio Zushi
Producer
Kimihiko Sato
Producer
Yoshikazu Watanabe
Lighting Technician
Toshiyuki Fujiwara
Assistant Director
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Wiki.
Igano Kabamaru (伊賀野カバ丸) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yū Azuki. The eponymous protagonist is a naive young ninja from the Iga province called Kagemaru (absolute shadow), nicknamed Kabamaru (hippo's mouth) for his insatiable appetite. After the death of his strict grandfather and ninja sensei, Kabamaru moves to Tokyo with one of his grandfather's acquaintances. The plot deals mainly with Kabamaru adjusting to an urban lifestyle after spending a childhood in the mountains, him developing feelings for his guardian's granddaughter, and how he finds himself caught up in the rivalry between two private schools.
Igano Kabamaru has been adapted to an anime series and a live-action film.