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Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: 10 Years After

I?ll clarify what exactly a 10 Years After movie is, since you should be familiar with the characters in the movie. It?s basically a movie that reunites the entire cast of the series from 10 years ago for a retrospective movie with a shoestring budget. How do they decide what gets such a movie? Well this video should answer that.

So if anyone?s wondering if they?ll be a Gokaiger 10 Years After movie, so far, only the actors for Marvellous, Luka and Ahim have signed on, the last I heard.

For the purposes of understanding this movie, I respectfully ask that you ignore everything I?ve covered beforehand in this thread as canon. With that said, let?s see where the Earth Ninjas go next with Miyashita and Watanabe back at the helm after so long.

We begin with Kouta and Nanami giving a summary of recent (to them) events.





We then cut to the present, as it turns out all the locations are foreign branches of the Space Union Ninja Way (why do they have foreign branches if there are only 5 active Earth Ninjas? Damn if I know). Nanami and Kouta have found the culprit and are moving to intercept him before he can hit the Japan branch.



The culprit then turns out to be a black Hurricaneger (or more accurately, a guy in a stereotypical ninja outfit with a repainted HurricaneRed helmet. They are on a budget after all), who is stopped by Nanami and Kouta before he can do any damage.



After knocking the others back with Hayate-Ryu Kengi: Shippu-Zan, the black Hurricaneger removes his suit to reveal Yosuke, who has adopted both a biker outfit and Sou Yaguruma?s outlook on life.



After the opening title screen, we cut to Nanami?s apartment, 10 hours earlier. While Kouta waits for Nanami to get out of the shower so he can tell her something important, her manager Hase discusses his latest attempts to get her an audition over the answering machine.



He then states that the only offer he?s managed to get for her is a gig in a Koichi Sakamoto project (or what sounds like one).



As a mysterious force eyes her Hurricane Gyro, Kouta gets a call from his kids, Suzune and Riku (don?t ask who the mother is. They don?t reveal it).



He tells the two that he?ll be busy, before lamenting that he hasn?t told him of his life as a ninja (boy, I just hope evil never strikes on either of their birthdays). Nanami is then shocked as her Hurricane Gyro is stolen by a bat. After she manages to kick it down behind the sofa in a bath towel (I see she took that risqu? job after all), separating it from its prize in the process, the bat transforms into a monster.



After getting beaten by the new monster, he receives a report from his subordinate that something bad is happening (bad for them, that is. Which means that it must be good for our heroes). Kouta asks who he is, to which he introduces himself.





Kouta realised that since he?s one of the Seven Dark Spears, he?s a Jakanja, to which Zero replies that he is and he isn?t (how is that possible), before leaving. As the two decide he must be after Yosuke as well, we cut to Ikkou, who has formed a boy band with Kazuyoshi Sakai (Better known as Sotaro Ushigome/GaoBlack) and Ryohei Odai (Better known as Shuichi Kitaoka/Kamen Rider Zolda) along with a few others.



But there?s one member missing, and for very good reasons.





(If you don?t get the joke, Yusuke Tomoi is better known as Ryu Ashihara/Kamen Rider Gills)

The band then perform their latest hit ?Shinobi Ai? (named deliberately as the opposite of ?Shinobi Koi?, a recurring song from the original series).

Almost immediately as soon as the song is over, they get a heckler. And a familiar one at that.



Isshu is annoyed that after 10 years, this is what Ikkou has chosen to do with his life. But it turns out there are people who appreciate Ikkou?s unique brand of music (the lady who was visible in profile throughout the previous video).



While Ikkou is happy to have someone who appreciates his art, Isshu is suspicious.



They then get attacked by the Black Hurricaneger, just as Nanami and Kouta reach Yosuke?s office (he?s gone up in the world from window-cleaning, that also somehow entails selling cookies, doing construction work and helping out at a chicken restaurant.



Once inside they find an empty office, which not only has the floor plans for the Space Union Ninja branches that got bombed recently, but a down turned picture of the goo old days.



As they realise that the Japan branch is next, a creepy kid appears at the door (whose actor previously played an equally creepy kid in a Go-Busters episode)



Back at the club, the black Hurricaneger uses an attack to relieve the Kasumi Bros of their Shinobi Medals.



Both recognise the attack at the Kabuto Raigekiha, which only Ikkou and one other person know. Rumbled, Yosuke tosses the Shinobi Medals to the woman, who turns out to be Furabijo.



Back with Nanami and Kouta, that kid turns out to not quite be free of Messiah, as he declares that heroes will be destroyed, only to change tact and beg for Yosuke?s help, before the door closes. When the two open it, the kid is gone. No, he?s not a ghost, he?s merely projecting himself from a hidden base, where Wendinu is struggling to keep him in check as Furabijo returns with her prize.



Zero then returns and has the Gouraiger medals placed in slots on the podium, which manage to knock the boy out.



Zero then reveals that he plans to collect all 6 Shinobi Medals used by the Hurricanegers, Gouraigers and Shurikenger, in order to awaken ?it?, a plan which his two minions point out the derivative-ness of.

Wendinu: ?It??

Furabijo: Not ?that??

Back to the present, Yosuke is subdued by his former allies and taken to the Space Union Ninja Style headquarters for an inquiry.



After the door is opened, the two bring Yosuke before an easily identifiable, not that well hidden judge (though I will keep their identity a secret until it was supposed to be a reveal, I will say they could?ve put them in a cloak and disguised their voice), who states the rules for the accused and his associates.



As Yosuke refuses to defend himself or even say anything, Oboro and Mugensai appear to speak on his behalf.



As Kouta shares that they were attacked by a Jakanja who was after their Shinobi Medals, who Yosuke admits to being involved with, it turns out that Zero snuck in by hiding on Yosuke?s back in his bat form. Mugensai recognises his pose and reveals Zero?s origin.



And he was the most skilled member of the Space Union Ninja Style (which makes me wonder when his defection to Jakanja took place, given that the Space Union Style was only founded as Jakanja was being destroyed and it only had a handful of students to begin with. Not to mention how he became a bat monster). Zero then reveals how he infiltrated the building and goes for his prize.



He then has Yosuke get the last Medal from behind the judge?s curtain, at which point our characters see her face for the first time.



Everyone mistakes her for Kagura, who died when Sandaaru removed the Dark Stone from her body (and indeed, she?s played by the same actress). But Oboro clarifies that she?s actually just a relative (they don?t say how she?s related, or what she was doing before they presumably shanghaied her into the role of her ancestor to whom she bore an uncanny resemblance). This doesn?t stop Yosuke from getting what he came for: the Shinobi medal of the late Shurikenger.



Zero then reveals that his plan is to give birth to the Sacred Will, and Yosuke reveals his stake in this.



But Zero tricks him with a hologram of Tenkai (the boy from earlier) and leaves, stating that ?promises are made to be broken?. Our three Hurricanegers then retreat to Shinobi Valley, where they air their problems over sharing an apple (apparently, they haven?t been taking to each other much since they defeated Jakanja).





They then think back on the good old days, such as their first time as the Hurricanegers, the time Yosuke went off on his own against Jishakumo, Isshu tanking Choopid?s arrows through his love for Nanami and their preparations to stop the Evil Will?s new universe being born (that must be the most random happy times montage ever). Yosuke then explains what the Sacred Will is, beginning at the end.









This force was the Sacred Will, which took the form of a boy named Tenkai, who Yosuke met and adopted during his travels around the world, six months ago. Then Tenkai was captured by Zero, who revealed the truth via Ankoku Chou Ninpo: Gyakai Junen. Yosuke worked with Zero in an attempt to save Tenkai from the Sacred Will, which Mugensai reveals is far more powerful than the Evil Will and has no guarantee of being used for good. Yosuke then leaves, intending to make things right by stopping Zero on his own, due to his friends having their own lives, while he considers himself expendable.



Ikkou then points out that Yosuke isn?t the only one who?s felt like lashing out of the world because of their circumstances.







He then recalls how Yosuke risked his life to save Ikkou?s. Ikkou theorises that Yosuke wanted their help in saving Tenkai, which is why he revealed himself back then. It?s at this point the last member of the party joins.



Isshu reveals that he worked out that Zero is going to awaken the Sacred Will in Shinobi Valley and that he took the liberty of putting a homing device on his Shinobi Medal to save time.



As Ikkou points out that the odds are against them, since they can?t Shinobi Change without their medals, Yosuke merely says something to the effect of ?I like those odds?, before throwing off his leather outfit for his normal uniform.



Yosuke then cements the return of the Hurricane-Gourai Alliance with a circle of friendship.



As they run through the valley, Zero decides to accelerate his ritual. But before he can insert the Shurikenger Medal, the heroes find the portal and enter it.



As Nanami and Kouta are surprised to see Furabijo and Wendinu are alive (no, they don?t explain that), Yosuke tries appealing to Tenkai to fight this and beat himself to become better. Despite some lightning being shot out, Tenkai wins out, deciding not to be evil and destroys the sub space.



But this doesn?t deter Zero in the slightest. He just summons the Magerappas to grab the boy and try the ritual again. But Tenkai affirms that he won?t be a force for evil, he?ll be like Yosuke and his friends.



Punching his way through the Magerappas, he grabs the Shurikenger Medal, turning it into a new Shuriken Ball through sheer willpower. And to cement that he?s a new hero, he does an original pose.





As everyone is shocked at this, Tenkai takes the medals back from Zero with an empty costume trick, leading to a group change with a unique effect that summons up a hurricane.



Partway through the transformation, everyone stops to do a roll call.

























Tenkai: I am the ninja among ninja. The green light bullet. Tenkuu Ninja, Shurikenger, has arrived.

All: The Space Union Ninja Style has returned.

Zero summons an army of Magerappas, as the transformations are completed and the fight begins in earnest.



But what starts as a straight fight soon degenerates into being bizarre. First off, Nanami shows up dressed as a Jidai Geki heroine to fight Furabijo, which she wins.





Kouta then dresses as Ryouma Sakamoto for some reason and defeats Wendinu in a gunfight.





Yosuke then defeats a group of Magerappas dressed as a ronin, while singing an a Capella rendition of ?Hurricaneger Sanjou?.



And the Kasumi Bros? well I had a video I wanted to use, but I couldn?t find it, so I?ll let your imagination fill in the details based on these pictures (and they are saying these in the proudest Shurikenger tradition).





With the Magerappa army wiped out, Furabijo and Wendinu hightail it out of there. Yosuke and Tenkai then face Zero, who splits himself into a pair of identical old men (his human form?)





But the two clones are defeated easily, before Tenkai assumes his Fire Mode and has Yosuke join him in attacking Zero with Double Bunshin Magyuu.



As Zero goes off on a rant about his ambition to reset the planet Earth and get rid of all humans (which would explain why he became a bat monster, but not how). At which point all six heroes attack him with Chou Ninpo: Rokunin Kage no Mai.













They then combine the Dry Gun, the Sonic Megaphone, the Quake Hammer, the Horn Breaker, the Stag Breaker and the Ninjamisen into a new weapon.



They then blast Zero with the 10 Years After attack, vanquishing him (though not for good, as you?ll see).



As everyone celebrates the victory, Oboro points out that since Yosuke was their pupil, the Hinatas have to pay for the damages he caused to the foreign branches. To which Mugensai transforms into Hamster Headmaster (mispronouncing his spell again, I presume).



As the credits roll, everyone discusses their plans. Namely, in addition to training successors, Nanami will aim to be an actress, Kouta will tell his kids the truth, Ikkou will continue as part of JUNretsu and Isshu offers to join the band, since ?it would net them more fans?. much to Ikkou?s chagrin.

Uchuu Ninja File: Jakanja Seven Dark Spears? Zero Spear, Bat Ze Rhumba. Did you know? Rhumba appears once every ten years.



I guess I?ve got something to revive this thread with one day.

Final thoughts: The movie works as a character piece, with the action mostly being dressing. The worst I can say is that a lot of stuff goes unexplained, but that?s mostly nitpicking.

And rather than tell you where we?re going next, I?ll show you.