Kage Gari

Kage Gari (影狩り) is a 1969 jidaigeki manga series by Takao Saito. It follows the adventures of three ronin - Jubei (十兵衛), Sunlight (日光), and Moonlight (月光) - who dedicate their lives to hunt down "shadows", the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Films
The series was later adapted into two live-action films in 1972 Kage Gari and Kage Gari Hoero taiho directed by Toshio Masuda and screenplay by Kaneo Ikegami.

Kage Gari
(June 10, 1972, Runningtime 90minutes)
 * Yujiro Ishihara as Muroto Jubei
 * Ryōhei Uchida as Niko (Sunlight)
 * Mikio Narita as Geiko (Moonlight)
 * Ruriko Asaoka as Chitose
 * Isao Tamagawa as Shouji Sukejuro
 * Kōjirō Kusanagi as Jinma Senjuro
 * Shinjirō Ehara as Kosaka Kurando
 * Tetsurō Tamba as Tanuma Ogitsugu
 * Shunsuke Kariya as Koroku
 * Ryutaro Tatsumi as Makino Zusho

Kage Gari Hoero Taihō
(October 10, 1972, Runningtime 89minutes)
 * Yujiro Ishihara as Muroto Jubei
 * Ryōhei Uchida as Sunlight (日光)
 * Mikio Narita Moonlight (月光)
 * Tetsurō Tamba as Kage Metsuke
 * Mari Shiraki as Osen
 * Junko Natsu as Shibatsuji Miya
 * Yoshi Katō as Michinari Shibatsuji
 * Kenji Sahara as Besho Hayato

Other adaptations

 * Kage Gari (Television drama in 1983) starring by Tatsuya Nakadai, Directed by Akira Inoue.
 * Shin Kage Gari (新・影狩り), a new manga series by Kenji Okamura in 2011.