Sengoku Ninja

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The Plot:

A research expedition recovers the body of a frozen ninja from the 1400’s. It was brought into a research laboratory to be studied and scrutinized. With it, scientists wanted to know how the Japanese people lived during the Sengoku Period, how they dressed and what kind of conditions their bodies were in.

However, a power outage melted the ice where the ninja is encapsulated, waking it up. We learn that this particular ninja had a mission before he met his temporary demise 6 centuries ago: to find his master’s lost dog.

The scientists, after finding out that the ninja was alive, sought to help him in his mission while a team finds a way to bring the ninja back in his own time. Reading scrolls from the old times, they learned that the dog was actually stolen during one of the wars of the Sengoku period.

The Hanger:

Careful studies of the genealogy reveal that the Head Researcher, who in time became good friends with the ninja, is a direct descendant of the thief, his master’s worst enemy.

The ninja is forced to make a decision: kill the Researcher to fulfill his master’s orders (because the dog is long dead), or ignore the order and maintain his friendship with the researcher.

The Twist:

A hailstorm buries the research facility, freezing the ninja along with the researchers. 1000 years from now, another research team will discover them and the story starts all over again.