Japan Synopsis
Shinobi
“Fated to love : Destined To Kill.”
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition–a fight to the death–will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Shinobi: Heart Under Blade. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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The 2004–2006 Japan Window
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade holds position #225 of 347 Japan films in the 2004–2006 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Shinobi: Heart Under Blade premiered alongside 116 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 116 other Japan films in 2005.
The 1735th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
146 audience reviews — more than 82% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (82th percentile) outruns trending popularity (58th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- ninja fighter · 3
- japanese soldier · 3
- code of the samurai · 2
- japanese royal family · 1
- forbidden love · 19
- samurai sword · 16
- japan · 454
- samurai · 128
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,084 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (33rd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #1,212 of 1,714 (top 71%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Eisei Gekijo, Shochiku, Nippon Television Network Corporation |
| Runtime | 1h 47m |
| Release Date | September 17, 2005 |
| IMDb | tt0475723 |