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Hey SHADOW HUNTERS, lighten up a bit, will ya…
8 Apr 2017

Hey SHADOW HUNTERS, lighten up a bit, will ya…

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV, 2 - Books and Manga | 0

If you were a young devourer of manga and anime in the 1980s, creator Takao Saito will always be the man who gave us Golgo 13. However in the mid-2000s the good folk at Animeigo released two early 70s live action … Continued

Kage Gari, Shadow Hunters, Takao Saito
20 Jan 2011

Be very qwwwiet… we’re hunting shadows!

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV, 2 - Books and Manga | 0

Takao Saito‘s rather fun manga Kage Gari was turned into a veeeery grim, nigh-emo film in 1972. Whereas the trio of vengeful “Shadow Hunters” in the books are sort of a jaunty, anti-shinobi three musketeers, in the film they are … Continued

Kage Gari, Shadow Hunters

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