Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

Ninja Sentai Kakuranger
The title card for Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
Genre	Tokusatsu
Created by	Toei
Starring	Teruaki Ogawa Satomi Hirose Hiroshi Tsuchida Shu Kawai Kane Kosugi
Narrated by	Sanyutei Enjo
Opening theme	"Secret Kakuranger" by Tū Chī Chen
Ending theme	"Ninja! Matenrou Kids" by Tū Chī Chen
Composer(s)	Eiji Kawamura
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	53
Production
Producer(s)	Atsushi Kaji Takeyuki Suzuki Shigenori Takadera Kōichi Yada Susumu Yoshikawa
Running time	approx. 25 minutes
Production company(s)	Toei
Distributor	Shout! Factory
Release
Original network	TV Asahi
Original release	February 18, 1994 – February 24, 1995
Chronology
Preceded by	Gosei Sentai Dairanger
Followed by	Chōriki Sentai Ohranger

Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (忍者戦隊カクレンジャー, Ninja Sentai Kakurenjā^?) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It was Toei Company Limited's eighteenth production of the Super Sentai television series. The name given to this series by Toei for international distribution is Ninja Rangers.

Action footage from the series was used in the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. In January 2016, Shout! Factory announced that they would release "Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: The Complete Series" on DVD in North America. Kakuranger was released on DVD in North America on May 17, 2016. This is the third Super Sentai Series to be released in North America.

Four hundred years ago, the ninja and the Youkai had a great war. The legendary Sarutobi Sasuke and four other ninjas sealed the Youkai Commander Nurarihyon and all his Youkai's energies away in a cave protected by the "Seal Door". In the present, one of the few remaining Youkai, Kappa, tricks Sarutobi Sasuke and Kirigakure Saizo's descendants, Saizou and Sasuke, into releasing the Youkai by opening the "Seal Door". Now these two, joined by three other descendants of great ninjas, become the Kakuranger to fight the reinvigorated Youkai with the aid of the Sanshinshou. However, the Kakurangers have their work cut out for them as the Youkai are slowly being united under one banner.

Each member is named after a legendary ninja and master of the Hidden Style Ninjutsu (Kakureryū Ninjutsu).