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Through battles against assassins of the Tokugawa faction, the story depicts the exploits and growth of Sasuke, a young ninja of the Koga school. The Ninjutsu techniques used in the story are explained scientifically, making them easy to understand for the children who were the target audience at the time.
00:00Hello. Thank you for watching today. Today's topic is Sasuke.
00:20This film is about Sasuke, a young boy not yet old enough to be born into a ninja family, who fights for survival and lives a tough life while battling powerful enemies.
00:38Sasuke was originally written by Sanpei Shirato and aired for a total of 29 episodes between 1968 and 1969.
00:52The story begins with Hattori Hanzo, under orders from Tokugawa Ieyasu, cornering the Sanada forces or the Sarutobi ninjas.
01:02Despite having an injured leg, the Sanada ninja desperately pursues them and then escapes, but as Hanzo and his subordinates approach, he hides in a cave that he comes across by chance.
01:16However, when the cave is discovered, he finds himself in a desperate situation, but he manages to make it look like he committed suicide by blowing up the cave.
01:25As the Sanada ninjas assume that the Sanada ninja are dead and leave the cave, a boy named Sasuke appears in the cave and informs the Sanada ninja that the Sanada ninja are missing.
01:39After that, Sasuke disappeared into thin air, and the Sanada ninja watched him go.
01:47The reason why the Sanada ninja were in danger of being annihilated by the Tokugawa forces was because during the Winter Siege of Osaka, the Sanada ninja had attempted to greet Ieyasu but failed.
02:00Since then, Sanada ninja hunts have been carried out all over Japan, and the clan is on the brink of extinction.
02:09Furthermore, at Ieyasu's command, even the god of baseball Tajima is trying to use a group of baseball players to destroy the Sanada ninja, but one night, an injured man comes to the house where Sasuke and his mother live, asking for help.
02:25Therefore, Sasuke's mother goes out to buy shochu to use for the treatment, but on the way she encounters Hattori Hanzo's daughter, Kaede, and is killed.
02:39However, before Sasuke's mother died, she used the wind shifting technique to warn Sasuke that the enemy was approaching, allowing Sasuke to escape from the house with the injured man.
02:55After escaping, the injured man reveals himself to be a Sanada ninja whom Sasuke had previously saved, and gives Sasuke information about an acquaintance who can hide him, before leaving to head to Sanada Yukimura's base.
03:11With his mother gone and his father missing, Sasuke is essentially all alone, but with his natural fighting spirit and superior ninjutsu, he is determined to survive.
03:25Now, let me introduce the main characters.
03:31Sasuke is the main character of this work and an excellent young ninja.
03:36He learns the monkey jumping technique from his father, Great Ape Daisuke, and uses a variety of ninjutsu techniques, such as flame hiding, to defeat his enemies in ways that are hard to believe for a young ninja.
03:47On the other hand, mentally, he still retains the mentality of a young boy, and there are many scenes in which he is strongly obsessed with thoughts of death and his dead mother.
04:00During the story, he reunites with his missing father, Oozaru, and engages in a fierce life-or-death battle with his pursuers, the Baseball Ninja and the Iga Ninja, while also growing significantly as a ninja.
04:16Daisuke the Great Ape is Sasuke's father, a Takaga ninja under Sanada Yukimura, and one of the monkey-hopping gang.
04:28While he became Sasuke's ninjutsu teacher, he was also a powerful villain who was able to defeat even a raging bull.
04:35By prioritizing survival, he has the strength to overcome adversity in any situation, and is also a skilled ninja who is adept at using special weapons such as giant shuriken.
04:52Kirigakure Saizo is an ally of Oozaru in the monkey-flying people group, and with the help of Kasumi no Kogenta, he saves Oozaru from an assassination attempt by Negoroshi.
05:03His ninjutsu skills were on par with those of the great monkeys, and he was known as one of the leading ninjas among the monkey-flying people.
05:13Saruhiko was a member of the Scum Clan and an acquaintance of the Great Ape, but he wanted Sasuke to teach his four children ninjutsu, so he used trained monkeys to kidnap Sasuke.
05:27However, the children used ninjutsu against Sasuke's advice and suffered a tragic death.
05:37Subaki Kasumi was the daughter of a merchant, but after her father was killed by Makabe Danshi, she became a masked swordsman and set out to avenge her father's death.
05:50By chance, he meets Sasuke and his son, and with the help of the Great Ape, he is able to avenge his father, but he senses the danger of involving others and so he gives up on his revenge.
06:01Wakana lost her husband and lived with her daughter Kaoru, but when a large monkey fell ill, she encouraged him to work, and the two fell in love.
06:15Even though he meets Sasuke, he is initially unable to open up to him because Sasuke still has strong memories of his late mother, and there are many scenes in which he is seen struggling.
06:25The following people will be Sasuke and the Great Ape's enemies.
06:34Hattori Hanzo became the leader of the Iga Ninja and the secret organization, the Iga Ninja, in the Tokugawa Shogunate.
06:43Under orders from the shogunate, he annihilated the remnants of Toyotomi's forces and ninjas, but he also became a sworn enemy, relentlessly targeting Sasuke and Great Ape Daisuke.
06:54However, after being forced from his hunting position due to a rebellion by his subordinate Iga ninja, he takes on the name Munen, and in the film he works with Sasuke and his son to help the Christians escape from the hands of the shogunate, before disappearing.
07:09The God of Baseball Tajima is the leader of the baseball clan and also the hunter of the baseball army he formed to ensure the clan's development.
07:20In fact, this baseball army was feared by feudal lords and protest groups, and even Hattori Hanzo was wary of them, despite being an ally of the army.
07:31Baseball Jubei is the son of the Tajima god and a stone rock, but he appears as a skilled ninja hitter. After accidentally encountering Sasuke, he comes to view him as a rival through numerous battles.
07:48In other works, Yakyu Jubei is often depicted as a swordsman wearing an eyepatch, but in this work he is active as a ninja without an eyepatch.
08:03Lord Hechima's assistant has an imposing long face and is a skilled swordsman who can rival even a great ape.
08:11He joins in a morning match hosted by Makabe and his wife, and engages in a serious fight with a great ape, but the match ends in a draw, and both of them are recruited as servants.
08:24Later, when he helped Tsubaki Kasumi avenge her death, he was defeated by a giant shuriken, the windmill, fired by the Great Ape.
08:32Onihime is the sole survivor of the Kuki clan, and although she is still a young girl, she is a kunoichi with great knowledge and abilities, and out of necessity she seeks out Sasuke and his son, who destroyed her clan, in order to take their lives.
08:50However, when Akazaru recognizes his talent for painting, he becomes his apprentice and forgets about his revenge.
08:57As an aside, the original manga had already finished serialization before the anime began, but a remake by the original author was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday for about a year from 1968 to coincide with the anime adaptation.
09:18The original serialization was divided into two parts: Part 1, which covered the events in the anime, and Part 2, which chronicled the events that followed. In Part 2, while Daisuke the Great Ape and Sasuke were taking refuge in a hidden Christian village, Sasuke grew up as a ninja alongside his half-brother, the child of Daisuke and Wakana, a disciple monkey.
09:45In the final episode, Sasuke and Kozaru get caught up in a sudden commotion that breaks out in the village, and Kozaru goes missing. Sasuke is stunned, and the original story ends with him walking away somewhere.
10:03And the following is the final episode of the anime.
10:07One day, Sasuke discovers an underground perimeter of hidden Christians and encounters a mysterious samurai, forcing him to fight.
10:19However, the mysterious samurai uses the Obscure Shadow Technique to toy with Sasuke through illusions, but when his father, the Great Ape, appears, the mysterious samurai retreats.
10:33The Great Ape then takes Sasuke to a hidden Christian village and introduces him to the woman who is caring for him, Wakana, and her daughter, Gaoro.
10:45Sasuke is surprised to find himself living with a stranger, but more than that, he is curious about his father's relationship with the woman, Wakana.
10:54And when Sasuke sees his father and Wakana getting along so well, he is filled with intense anger as he thinks of his late mother, and he can no longer trust his father.
11:06Meanwhile, the mysterious samurai who attacked Sasuke informs the priest that the authorities have discovered the underground patrols of the hidden Christians, and the mysterious samurai suggests that the officials condemn the hidden Christians.
11:22In fact, this mysterious samurai is Hattori Hanzo, who has been removed from his hunting position and now hides his face, calling himself Munen.
11:34In the midst of this, Sasuke, his father, and the Great Ape are asked for help in rescuing the hidden Christians out of resentment, so with Wakana and Kaoru in tow, they decide to help the hidden Christians escape.
11:49Meanwhile, Odate was planning to capture all the hidden Christians in one fell swoop after the tax was paid, and preparations were steadily underway, including the posting of guards.
12:04Odate appears to be in a relaxed mood, but the Great Ape is actually carrying out his escape plan by hypnotizing the villagers.
12:14A few days later, the villagers return to their villages after paying their taxes, but Odate, accompanied by his officials, heads back to the village.
12:25After confirming the situation, Sasuke sets off fireworks to inform the Great Ape about Odate and the others.
12:35The fireworks trigger the effects of the hypnotic spell cast by the great monkey on the villagers, and they begin to dance in tribute here and there, as they are confronted by officials who have just arrived in the village.
12:49However, the activities of the Oe-mairi were protected by the Tenka-ho, and anyone who interfered with the activities was severely punished, so even Odate could not intervene.
13:04Therefore, Odate had no choice but to tell the officials to retreat and leave the village.
13:13After witnessing the retreat, Sasuke used his horse to erase the villagers' tracks as they left the village, successfully escaping.
13:23The scene changes to a rainy day a week later, when Sasuke returns home after seeing that the footprints have naturally disappeared due to the rain.
13:34Sasuke meets Wakana and Kaoru again, but he just can't bring himself to face his father's remarriage, and as he struggles with his mother's memories, the Great Ape finally makes a decision.
13:48He tells Wakana that he will respect Sasuke's feelings for his mother, not remarry, and leave the village.
13:57Sasuke, who was listening to the story while pretending to be asleep, began to think again about what he should do about his father who was trying to stop the remarriage for his sake.
14:10The next morning, while the Great Ape was traveling, Sasuke returned from hunting for breakfast and told his father that he wanted to live with Wakana and Kaoru, and that he was in favor of remarrying.
14:25After telling him this, the show ends with Sasuke putting his new sister Kaoru on horseback and riding away.
14:37Now let's take a look at Sasuke's performance.
14:52Where there is light, there is shadow.
14:55In the shadow of Seiei, there were countless ninjas.
14:59The men behind the scenes who risked their lives to make history.
15:03But man, you cry for Naohito, you are born in darkness and disappear into darkness.
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