Ninja Scroll - Cast

Cast

• Kōichi Yamadera as Jubei Kibagami (牙神獣兵衛, Kibagami Jūbei?): A vagabond ninja who becomes an enemy of the Eight Demons of Kimon when he interrupts Tessai raping Kagero, ultimately resulting in Tessai's death. His talent rests in his expert swordsmanship being able to defeat a vast number of opponents by himself, and his sword has a wire attached to it to allow him to retract it to his hands should he be disarmed.

• Emi Shinohara as Kagero (陽炎, Kagerō?): The official food taster for the Mochizuki clan's Chamberlain and a part of the Koga ninja team dispatched into a rural village to investigate a sudden epidemic that has been spread by the Eight Demons of Kimon and which has killed all the villagers. There, all her comrades are massacred by Tessai, who captures Kagero. She is soon rescued by Jubei and ordered by the Chamberlain to further investigate the Demons of Kimon. This leads to her making an alliance with Jubei and Dakuan, under the claim that she wants to repay Jubei for saving her. Kagero has an immunity to poisons and her work as a food taster has resulted in her body becoming poisonous due to her ingestion of so many toxins and poisons; anyone who sleeps with or even kisses her therefore dies shortly after due to the poison in her body. She can also release pollen from under her clothes, mixed with a sleeping potion. Gemma later impales her with a sword while he is disguised as the Chamberlain. The injury kills her shortly after.

• Takeshi Aono as Dakuan (濁庵, Dakuan?): A shady government spy who is also sent to investigate and stop the Eight Demons of Kimon and their employer, the Shogun of the Dark who wishes to overthrow the government. He commits Jubei to his cause by stabbing him with a poisoned shuriken and promising him an antidote and 100 pieces of gold only after the demons have been defeated. When he is attacked by Shijima, Dakuan demonstrates his ability to blend into his environment, like a chameleon, disguising himself as a tree branch to avoid confrontation. The character is an homage to the famed Japanese monk Takuan Sōhō.

• The Eight Devils of Kimon (鬼門八人衆, Kimon Hachinin-shū?, literally meaning "Eight People of the Devil Gate") are eight demonic ninjas with supernatural powers, seven of which were gathered under Gemma Himuro's leadership after he reincarnated himself from Jubei's ambush, and appear to serve under the Shogun of the Dark.

• Daisuke Gōri as Gemma Himuro (氷室弦馬, Himuro Gemma?): The leader of the Eight Devils of Kimon who is working with The Shogun of the Dark to overthrow the government. He later betrays the shogun, taking possession of his vast quantity of gold. Gemma was decapitated by Jubei prior to the film's events, but has the ability to reincarnate himself, which is to control his body down to the tiniest bone and blood, allowing him to reconnect any and all severed body parts, even his head or if he is split from top to bottom; Gemma can also shapeshift, as he disguised himself as the chamberlain by morphing his flesh, and wears an armored plate on his left arm. He is finally defeated by falling into molten gold and sinking to the bottom of the ocean as his ship is destroyed, sealing him into the abyss even if he cannot die.

• Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Tessai (鉄斎, Tessai?): The first demon to be defeated, he is an incredibly large man who has the ability to turn his skin as hard as rock and fights with a staff with large sword blades on each end. After wiping out the Koga Clan ninja and capturing Kagero, Tessai begins to rape her and he becomes poisoned from the toxins in her body. His short temper soon sees him in a fight with Jubei who interrupted him to ask him for directions. In his second encounter with Jubei, the poison takes effect and Tessai is weakened. He is killed by his own weapon after he throws his staff at Jubei, who dodges it and manages to cut off one of his hands. When the staff returns to him like a boomerang, he fails to catch it and it stabs him through his head.

• Gara Takashima as Benisato (紅里, Benisato?): The second demon to be defeated, she is a seductive woman who has snake tattoos all over her body. Believing Jubei killed Tessai, Benisato tracks him down to some hot springs where he is bathing. The snake tattoos on her body come to life and attack Jubei, who kills them easily and holds a blade at Benisato's neck. She escapes by shedding her skin like a snake and fleeing. She encounters Jubei again in a temple, disguised as an old woman praying. This time she captures Jubei with her swarm of snakes, but he is rescued by Kagero. Benisato is then killed by Yurimaru who is angry that she is sleeping with Gemma and for failing twice, being electrocuted to death by a wire attached to Benisato's neck that she failed to notice.

• Reizō Nomoto as Mushizo (蟲蔵, Mushizō?): The third demon to be defeated, he is a dwarf who holds a hornet's nest in his back and is able to control these insects to do his bidding. Mushizo sends massive swarms of hornets after Jubei but is defeated when he falls into the lake, and is stung to death by the hornets as they try and escape from the nest in his back, with Jubei dealing the final blow.

• Norio Wakamoto as Mujuro Utsutsu (現夢十郎, Utsutsu Mujūrō?): The fourth demon to be defeated, he is a blind swordsman who challenges Jubei to a fight to the death. He is an incredibly skilled swordsman, having an uncanny hearing ability to engage his enemy as well blinding his enemy by reflecting light from his sword. Despite his skill, his lack of sight proves his undoing, as when Kagero attacks him, embedding her blade into a bamboo tree. When he makes a killing blow to Jubei, his sword is blocked by the blade and he is stabbed and killed by Jubei.

• Akitoshi Omori as Shijima (シジマ, Shijima?): The fifth demon to be defeated, he has the ability to merge into the shadows, create clones of himself, fire a large metallic claw from his hand and even possess people's minds. He kidnaps Kagero and possesses her mind so that she fights Jubei. Jubei kills him shortly after by throwing his sword into Shijima's shadow, piercing him in the back.

• Toshihiko Seki as Yurimaru (百合丸, Yūrimaru?): The sixth demon to be defeated and the right hand of Gemma. He kills Benisato after hearing from Zakuro that she is sharing her bed with Gemma, who he is also in love with. Yurimaru has the ability of generate electricity from his body, and would combine with a steel wire that wraps around his target's neck to conduct the electricity. He nearly kills Jubei, but is instead killed himself by an explosive trap set by Zakuro.

• Masako Katsuki as Zakuro (石榴, Zakuro?): The seventh demon to be defeated. She is in love with Yurimaru, who instead loves Gemma; by this end, she is very vengeful and took revenge against Yurimaru for rejecting her. Zakuro has the ability to manipulate gunpowder, and plants them inside living or dead organisms, having them move as explosive traps. She is burned to death by Jubei and Dakuan, which also causes the explosives within her to destroy Gemma's ship.

• Shūichirō Moriyama as Hyobu Sakaki (榊兵部, Sakaki Hyōbu?): The Mochizuki Clan chamberlain, he sends Kagero to investigate the plague in Shimoda and she sends her reports to him throughout the film. He has little respect for those who work for him, as he is shown having sex with Benisato while hearing that his ninjas were massacred by Tessai and describes them as "useless". He later brings reinforcements to Kagero and Jubei before their final showdown with Gemma and the Shogun, but this ends up being Gemma himself in disguise, as he explains that he had murdered Sakaki three days prior; this might explain that when Kagero made her report about one day ago, Gemma already took Sakaki's place.

• Katsuji Mori as Hanza (半佐, Hanza?): The captain for Koga clan ninja team. He has his arms torn off by Tessai. Jubei and Kagero later encounter him again seemingly alive walking near a cliff face. However, his eyes and mouth have been sewn shut and his body is filled with explosives, and he is detonated by Zakuro.