Ninja Kids!!!

Ninja Kids , Nintama Rantar? is a 2011 Japanese familyoriented comedy film directed by Takashi Miike. The film is liveaction adaptation of the Japanese anime series Nintama Rantar. The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, they are challenged by a group of rival ninjas which culminates in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.

Set in the Muromachi period in early 16th century Japan, the young ninja Rantaro Seishiro Kato is born into a family of lowranking ninjas. Rantaro is sent by his father and mother Shido Nakamura and Rei Dan to attend the sixyear course at a Ninja Academy run by Denzo Yamada Susumu Terajima. Rantaros homeroom teacher is Hansuke Doi Takahiro Miura and head of the Ninja Girl classes at the school is Shina Yamamoto who appears as either a beautiful young woman Anne Watanabe or an older woman Tamao Nakamura. After going home to his parents farm for the holidays, Rantaro is joined by his schoolmate Shinbei Futa Kimura but they later decided to stay with teacher Doi. One day, some Usetake ninjas arrive at the house of flamboyant hairdresser Yukitaka Saito Takeshi Kaga and his son Takamaru Takuya Mizoguchi in order to kill both of them. Yukitaka and Takamura used to belong to the Usetake clan, but Rantaro and his friends aim to save them by joining a contest that ends with a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.Ninja Kids had its world premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival on July 3, 2011. It premiered in Canada at the Fantasia Festival on July 16, 2011. After the premiere, negotiations were reported to be underway with a major production company for an American remake of the film. ........

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