Shinobi: Heart under Blade - Adventure romance

Star-crossed lovers from rival ninja clans are pitted against each other as Tokugawa Ieyasu decides it’s better to have these magical fighters at each other’s throats than his. But the love of Gennosuke (Joe Odagiri) and Oboro (Yukie Nakama) is not as easy to manipulate as Romeo and Juliet’s. While the Bard chose a dramatic double-suicide to make his point, Shinobi director Ten Shimoyama opts to have his lovers kick butt and take names. As Gennosuke and Oboro dispatch their enemies one after the other in colorful, well-choreographed displays of martial arts mixed with magical powers, we sense that the two lovers will face off at some point and have to decide whether their love or the fate of their communities will sway their hearts. The ending has some twists that would make the Bard proud. It’s a fantastic story fused with classical tragic elements.