Echo Of Destiny: Shadow Hunters II (1972)

Ronin Samurai aka Lone Wolf with Cub fights against shadow Yagyu Ninja attacks after they frame him against the Shogun!

Both have Ninjas versus Samurai! Azumi is a young orphan trained to be a ninja and assassin!.....................

Both movies have Samurai and Ninjas! Hanzo Hattori is probably the most famous real life historical Iga ninja who saved the life of his lord Ieyasu Tokugawa !

Both films have Samurai versus Ninjas!
Lord Nobunaga Oda tried to conquer Japan but one province still gave him so much trouble! The Iga territory where the Iga Ninjas lived already defeated.his son's 10,800 men so Nobunaga attacked Iga province a couple of years later with 42000 men!

RELEASED October 10, 1972
RUNTIME 89 mins
DIRECTOR Toshio Masuda
WRITER Kaneo Ikegami
COUNTRY Japan
LANGUAGE Japanese
GENRES Samurai, Ninja, Chanbara, Action, Bloodfest.

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.