Ninja Scroll - The Movie (1993) & The Complete Series (2003)

Jubei is wandering noble sword for hire but when a chance meeting leads him to save young ninja woman from rape he makes enemies with a group of demonic humans. Jubei and the woman part ways but later a government spy forces Jubei to join up with her again and investigate the mysterious death of an entire village. The investigation reveals a conspiracy involving the demons and a man from Jubei’s past who is supposed to be dead. As they get closer to the truth the demons close in on them and pretty soon Jubei finds himself in a deadly fight with many super strong inhuman opponents.

Ki­ba­ga­mi Jubei est un "Shi­no­bi", mer­ce­naire ninja qui vend ses ser­vices tout en va­ga­bon­dant à tra­vers les fo­rêts du Japon. Ar­ri­vant aux alen­tours d'un vil­lage, il y fait la connais­sance d'une jeune fille belle et in­tré­pide, Shi­gure. Mais le vil­lage est su­bi­te­ment at­ta­qué par d'hor­ribles monstres et ra­pi­de­ment ré­duit en cendres… Il sont à la re­cherche d'un ar­te­fact, la Pierre sa­crée du Dra­gon, afin d'ac­com­plir la pro­phé­tie de la jeune fille de la Lu­mière…

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri (movie), Tatsuo Sato (series)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode, 94 minutes (movie)
Number of episodes: 13
Note : The TV Series is the sequel of the Movie