- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Toshio Masuda
- Stars: Yūjirō Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, Ryôhei Uchida, Mikio Narita, Tetsuro Tamba
- Production_studio: Ishihara Productions, TOHO
- Slogan: Sudden Death Comes in Threes!
- The Shadow Hunters is featured in the top rankings of 1972
- #16 in Top Adventure Movies of 1972
- #36 in Top Action Movies of 1972
- #23 in Top Crime Movies of 1972
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.