Treating them pretty much like a sequence of boss battles, hence the term video game. No sooner do Jubei and Kagero finish one foe then they move onto the next one, occasionally defeating a few goons on the way. The plot and pacing of the film can best be described as "video game" and " Van Helsing speed" with the film rapidly moving from one sequence to the next. Monsters of humans led by a man Jubei knows only too well. On one side the ruthless agents of the ruling Tokugawa shogungate, on the other the Eight Devils of Kimon. The last of their number, Kagero, survives only due to the intervention of famed swordsman Kibagami Jubei and the two find themselves caught in a power struggle. When under the supicions of the head of the Mochizuki clan ninjas are dispatched to investigate, they are massacred by a superhuman assailant. The film is very much driven by its action and battles more than its plot, but the key thing which sets it apart from other schlock from its time is this one was well made.Ī mysterious disease is spreading throughout a number of small villages off of the coast causing them to be abandoned and quarantined in a blind panic. Almost every trope you'd expect to find from an early 90s english dubbed anime is here from the mass violence to the, well, questionable treatment of women. To say this one was a product of its time would be the understatement of the decade.