Sitting alone, Gennosuke detects that he is being observed by an Iga with malicious intent, while outside, Udono finds Jingorou stalking Gennosuke in his semi-liquid form and punishes him. She proposes friendly ninpou battle, but before it goes too far, they are interrupted by Udono who separates them. That night Akeginu prepares to kill Jousuke, but he mistakes her intentions and naively thinks she is attracted to him. Both are unaware that the Shogun has annulled the truce between the clans, although Gennosuke detects a level of tension. Gennosuke and Udono feast with the Iga clan contemplating the coming peace to be brought by their union. Transcription: " Yōkaku Yakō" ( Japanese: 妖郭夜行) Meanwhile, Gennosuke, Oboro, Udono and Akeginu enter the Iga Tsubagakure together. With both scrolls in his possession, Tenzen burns the Kouga copy to keep the news of the war from reaching the Kouga. As Jubei flees along the ground with the scroll, he encounters what he thinks is a vision of Tenzen who survived, but this time he is prepared and he kills Jubei. Worried that Shougen may have wounded Yashamaru, Hotarubi stabs Shougen repeatedly in a frenzy. Hotarubi summons her glowing pink butterflies enabling Mino Nenki to wound Shougen, however Shougen throws away the scroll which is caught by Jubei. Meanwhile, Hotarubi, Mino Neki, Yashamaru and Rousai ambush Shougen to get his copy of the scroll, but he retaliates and traps them with his sticky phlegm.
Tenzen sends the others to deal with Shougen, however Jubei catches Tenzen by surprise, stabbing him with a spear head which he held in his throat and wielded with his long tongue, leaving Tenzen for dead. Tenzen and the Iga ambush a Kouga palanquin and they find the limbless Jimushi Jubei inside. He prepares to attack the Kouga, targeting Kazamachi Shougen first. When Yakushiji Tenzen receives the Iga copy of the scroll he decides to keep the contents secret from Oboro. Transcription: " Kyōchū Muzan" ( Japanese: 凶蟲無惨) Without reading it, Oboro accompanies Gennosuke and sends the scroll back to the Iga Tsubagakure where Yakushiji Tenzen is pleased to receive news of the cancellation of the longstanding truce. They are interrupted by Rousai and Jousuke and Oboro is handed the Iga copy of the scroll. The next morning as Gennosuke and Oboro return home, they meet the Iga Akeginu, Mino Nenki, Hotarubi and Amayo Jingorou. Meanwhile, Kazamachi Shougen nears the Kouga Manjidani (compound), with the Kouga copy of the scroll, planning to eliminate the Iga on the list. Rousai suggests a ninpou game for the scroll. However Kouga Udono Jousuke intercepts Iga Ogen’s hawk carrying the scroll on which the contestants' names are written, and then encounters Iga Azuki Rousai. Transcription: " Taidō Niba" ( Japanese: 胎動弐場)Īt the Toki Pass on the Kouga-Iga border, the betrothed lovers Kouga Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan hope peace will finally reign between the clans. Back in the present, they end up killing each other and mark their names off on the scroll, the first ninja to be eliminated.
In a flashback, the two current leaders, Iga Ogen and Kouga Danjou, are shown as former lovers in 1581 when the Kouga attacked the Iga in a surprise night-time attack, and Danjou helped Ogen and some Iga escape. A scroll is used to indicate the competitors from the table. The surviving team would garner favor from the shogun for a thousand years, and their grandson will be the undisputed heir to the Shogunate. In 1614, after a demonstration duel between Kazamachi Shougen of the Kouga and Yashamaru of the Iga clans at Sunpu, the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, orders the truce between the two long-time feuding ninja clans to be canceled and commands each clan to send 10 of their best ninja to enter a competition to eliminate each other. Transcription: " Sōshi Sōsatsu" ( Japanese: 相思相殺) The deadly competition between 10 elite ninja from each clan unleashes a centuries-old hatred that threatens to destroy all hope for peace between them.
Two ninja clans, Tsubagakure of the Iga and Manjidani of Kouga, battle each other to determine which grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu will become the next shogun. Episode list Basilisk: Kōga Ninpō Chō (2005)
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