Hattori Hanzo?


Isn't he the guy from that Quentin Tarantino movie "Kill Bill"?

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yes, that was a homage to Shogun's Ninja

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Well..not really.
In the Behind the Scenes feature on the Kill Bill 1 dvd, Tarentino states that he took the character from a series starring Sonny Chiba. I think it was something like kage no gundan, or something. Also, Hattori Hanzo was a real person.

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yes, that was a homage to Shogun's Ninja

It had nothing to do with Shogun's Ninja.

Quentin Tarantino had Sonny Chiba play the character Hattori Hanzô which he also played in a television series called Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan.

It just happened that there's also a character in Shogun's Ninja called Hanzô Hattori.

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Hattori Hanzo was also the name of a 16th century ninja master, but he would have been about 12 years old at the time of this film's setting.

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