The Magic Serpent

The Magic Serpent , Kairy Daikessen? , The Mystic Dragons Decisive Battle is a 1966 tokusatsu kaijuninja fantasy film produced by Toei Company Ltd. This film is a loose retelling of the famous Japanese folktale, Jiraiya Gketsu Monogatari The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya.

The Oumi Kingdom, ruled peacefully by Lord Ogata Shinichiro Hayashi, was raided by his corrupt general Daijo Yuki Bin Amatsu, who is assisted by an evil ninja named Orochimaru Rytar tomo, who slays the lord and his wife, who in turn trust their young son IkazuchiMaru to their soldiers, who escape the kingdom in a small boat. Orochimaru goes after them, transforming into a giant serpent. He sinks the boat and almost succeeds in killing IkazuchiMaru, until a giant eagle flies along, injures Orochimaru, and saves the young boy.Years later, IkazuchiMaru Matsukata Hiroki, now a young man, has mastered the art of ninjutsu and toad magic, thanks to an old hermit named Dojin Hiki Nobuo Kaneko. When a band of ninja sent by Daijo Yuki try to attack IkazuchiMaru, the young ninja puts his skills to the test. Along the way, he meets a beautiful young girl named Tsunade Tomoko Ogawa, whom he becomes friends with. Meanwhile, Hiki is confronted by Orochimaru, who turns out to be an old apprentice of his Hiki also turned out to be the giant eagle that saved the young IkazuchiMaru and gave his former pupil a scar on his head when he was in serpent form. Orochimaru then attacks the old master with ninja magic and poisons him. IkazuchiMaru and Tsunade return almost too late, as the dying Hiki tells him all he needs to know about Orochimaru, telling his pupil to avenge his death. And just before he dies, he reacts to Tsunade in shock, as though he realized something about her. Before setting out on his mission to avenge his master, IkazuchiMaru says farewell to Tsunade, who is taken care of by an old spider woman Sen Hara, who tells her to follow the young man. She gives the young woman a spider hairpin, with which she can summon a giant spider, but she can do so only once, lest the giant spider will turn on her if used more than once. ........

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