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Hattori Hanzō (服部 半蔵, c. 1542 [1] – January 2, 1597) or Second Hanzō, nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), [2] was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.
Unlike their previous collaborations on Lone Wolf and Cub and Samurai Executioner, this story focuses on two historical figures from 16th-century Japan. Path of the Assassin is the story of Hattori Hanzō, the master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu, who would grow up to become shōgun and unify Japan. The creators poetically ...
Hattori Masanari (服部 正就, 1565 – June 3, 1615) was the third Hattori Hanzō and a retainer under the Tokugawa clan during the late Sengoku period of Japanese history. He was the eldest son of the famous Hattori Hanzō. Masanari began to fight alongside his father by the mid 1590s, succeeding him in 1596 at age 31.
A popular but fictional story says that in 1596, Kotarō was responsible for the death of Hattori Hanzō, a famous ninja in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had tracked him down in the Inland Sea, but Kotarō has succeeded in luring him into a small channel, where a tide trapped the Tokugawa gunboats and his men then set fire to the channel ...
The patriarch of the Tawara family of ninjas and a descendent of Hattori Hanzō. Since the death of his oldest son Gaku, he has since retired from ninja duties and relegated his life to running the family brewery as a normal civilian, not knowing that his remaining son, daughter, and wife have secretly continued using their abilities for missions.
Hanzō Hattori (服部 半蔵, Hattori Hanzō), or Shimo-no-Hanzō (下の半蔵, Shimo-no-Hanzō) A dedicated and talented young ninja who is head of the Hattori clan of Segachi. He is also called Shimo-no-Hanzō (下の半蔵, Shimo-no-Hanzō) to distinguish him from the two other people named "Hanzō Hattori" (including the historical Hanzō ...
The writer of True Romance, Quentin Tarantino, worked with Chiba ten years later in Kill Bill: Volume I, where Chiba portrayed Katana master maker Hattori Hanzō, [32] [33] in an episode that combined comical interaction with his assistant, played by Kenji Ohba, with sombre references to traditional, Japanese sword making.
According to the Kansei Chōshū Shokafu, the famous Iga ninja Hattori Hanzō rendered meritorious service during the Battle of Mikatagahara. The genealogy of major samurai complied by the later Tokugawa shogunate records that Hanzo captured a Takeda spy named "Chikuan" and delayed the advancing Takeda at the Tenryū River with an asymmetrical ...