well shinobi. *insert spoiler warning* its about dese 2 lovers, hu happen to be in rival villages, so its kinda like romeo and juliet. den de emperor fears dese 2 villages, so he says to get de 5 best ninjas from each village to take part in a duel to de death thins, sumwat like doa. onli one village will win, and deir chief will become de shogun.

but his actual intention is to let de 5 best nins kill each other, so he can attack de villages. de bastard.

well in the end they all die xcept de girl.

trailer at http://www.apple.com/jp/quicktime/trailers/shochiku/shinobi/m.html

List of nins. lol.

Village hidden in the mountains.

Kouga Gennosuke - can move so fast everything is slow-mo. main dude.
Muroga Hyouma - tracker, but otherwise noobshit.
Kagerou - seductress dat can spew poison mist.
Kisaragi Saemon - can change his appearance by feeling de victims face.
Chikuma Koshirou - very basic weapons guy. amazingly survived quite long.

village hidden in the river.

Oboro - main gal. has de eyes of destruction, gives off waves when she makes eye contact that implodes de blood vessels. can be turned off.

Yakushiji Tenzen - baddy. has worms in his body dat regenerate him. lived for 300 years.

Mino Nenki - stupid wolverine guy dat died first. stupid, just stupid.

Hotarubi - controls butterflies wif powder. acts as destraction, willing to lay her life for oboro.

Yashamaru - uses a special kind of hair whips dat he can stiffen, lengthen wadeva at will. quite gay but i like his design.

YASHAMARU BISHINESS.