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RUNTIME
Did you know
89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
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Cast
Ninja
Susumu Yanagisawa
Yasunobu Shiga
Naoto Endo
Shinya Masaki
Eiji Furukawa
Nobuhide Takagi
Megumi Yuki
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Hiroki Hirakawa
- Writers
- Shūji Kataoka
- Languages
- Japanese
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Hiroki Hirakawa directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in Japanese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
- 233 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Ninja and Susumu Yanagisawa and Yasunobu Shiga carry the top of the cast.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 89 min · 1h 29m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Also by
Hiroki Hirakawa
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Physical1993-05-14
