Kage Gari

is a 1969 jidaigeki manga series by Takao Saito. It follows the adventures of three ronin - Jubei (十兵衛), Sunlight (日光), and Moonlight (月光) - who dedicate their lives to hunt down "shadows", the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Films

The series was later adapted into two live-action films in 1972 Kage Gari and Kage Gari Hoero taiho directed by Toshio Masuda and screenplay by Kaneo Ikegami.

Kage Gari

(June 10, 1972, Runningtime 90minutes)

• Yujiro Ishihara as Muroto Jubei
• Ryōhei Uchida as Niko (Sunlight)
• Mikio Narita as Geiko (Moonlight)
• Ruriko Asaoka as Chitose
• Isao Tamagawa as Shouji Sukejuro
• Kōjirō Kusanagi as Jinma Senjuro
• Shinjirō Ehara as Kosaka Kurando
• Tetsurō Tamba as Tanuma Ogitsugu
• Shunsuke Kariya as Koroku
• Ryutaro Tatsumi as Makino Zusho

Kage Gari Hoero Taihō

(October 10, 1972, Runningtime 89minutes)

• Yujiro Ishihara as Muroto Jubei
• Ryōhei Uchida as Sunlight (日光)
• Mikio Narita Moonlight (月光)
• Tetsurō Tamba as Kage Metsuke
• Mari Shiraki as Osen
• Junko Natsu as Shibatsuji Miya
• Yoshi Katō as Michinari Shibatsuji
• Kenji Sahara as Besho Hayato

Other adaptations

• Kage Gari (Television drama in 1983) starring by Tatsuya Nakadai, Directed by Akira Inoue.
• Shin Kage Gari (新・影狩り), a new manga series by Kenji Okamura in 2011.

References

External links

• Saito production
• Ishihara Yujiro Senka
• Ishihara Yujiro Senka - Kage Gari
• Ishihara Yujiro Senka - Kage Gari Hoero cannon