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Tez are you sure about Ninja?
Well, reasonably, yes. I mean, obviously my information comes only from those same sources that might - as you say - have been an example of the myth that has undoubtedly surrounded the Ninja. As far as I’m aware, the current belief is that they were originally people - and probably peasants or masterless Samurai - who disliked living under the heel of their Samurai lords, and sought a purpose by being employed to do the military jobs - specifically covert operations - which no self-respecting Samurai would even consider.
It’s known that the term Ninja derives from the Japanese Shinobi-no-mono, which is written with two kanji characters that can be pronounced as nin-sha (although don’t ask me how, my knowledge of Oriental pronunciation is not all it might be). The first character, nin, refer to concealment, while the second, sha, means person, ergo a person who hides his presence. Again, this refers to covert operations, and usually those of a military persuasion. Sun Tzu makes mention of the tactics of espionage employed by Ninja, but admittedly never mentions them by name.
There are plenty of documents which do mention Ninja by name however, the earliest being around the 1100's if I recall correctly, and from the period of the Tokugawan Shogunate there are a wealth of surviving documents and records about Ninja activity, although since it was invariably Tokugawan scribes writing about Tokugawan Ninja, it's likely that they might have exaggerated their abilities just a tad.
Fuck off and read a book, Tez
You poor deluded fellow, Seth. You are clearly trying to build the Ninja up to a level where you feel they could compete with Pirates, which just isn't going to happen, mate. Now go and commit Seppuku at once. Perhaps Reidcourchie would care to second you if he has a Katana handy...?
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In fact the whole film looks lush, filmed mostly in New Zeland as I understand it.