Have you ever watched a film that was just some friends getting together in the woods with a camcorder? Mirai Ninja has that energy, only it also has surprisingly solid costumes and great miniature work. Apparently it was funded by Namco?
An early work by director Keita Amemiya (Jetman, Hakaider '95, approximately five hundred Garo productions). Unmistakably a direct-to-video production with all that implies. It has a story, it tells it in 75 minutes, there's violence and robots and demons, and then it ends. A+

