House of Ninjas Ending Explained: What Happened to the Tawara and the Fuma Clan?
From February 15, 2024, House of Ninjas is available on Netflix. It is a thriller TV series, enthralling the platform’s subscribers. The protagonist is the Tawara family, made up of skilled ninjas. With their skills, they managed to complete their missions, but the turning point came after a mysterious accident during an operation six years earlier. They withdrew. Now they are called back into the field by a secret organization of super spies. The Tawara family doesn’t want to do it, but there are many dangers for the country. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates what happened six years earlier. Directed and co-written by Dave Boyle, House of Ninjas (“Shinobi no Ie: House of Ninjas” in its original language) is a Japanese Netflix series that tells the story of the Tawara family who abandons their roots after an incident in the past but must return to face a crisis that threatens to shake the nation to its foundations.
The action drama that is available on the Red N platform, begins with Haru Tawara falling in love with a mysterious girl who frequents the same restaurant. But the Ninja Management Office, BNM, appears to put an end to their illusions: Karen Ito is a journalist investigating the Pleasure Cruise case and following the trail of the Tawara. Hama, the person in charge of the Ninja Management Office, asks Haru to keep an eye on Karen, and he also manages to get Yoko, the matriarch of the family, to accept the mission of keeping an eye on the only survivor of the poisoning on the cruise ship. Meanwhile, daughter Nagi gets into trouble when one of her usual thefts and returns is intercepted by a mysterious ninja who contacts her on social media to demand the Tawara scroll.
House of Ninjas: The Story Plot
Ninjas in Japan no longer exists. Or rather, only one family remained standing, that of the Tawara. This has happened since, in a battle to the death, she managed to defeat the fearsome rival Fuma clan. A victory paid dearly with the death of the eldest son Gaku (Kengo Kora), which led the rest of the family to hang up their shuriken and forget their glorious past as shinobi. But, six years later, the work in the family distillery, used for generations as a cover, is at risk, the young Nagi (Aju Makita) does everything not to give up her ninja skills, her brother Haru (Kento Kaku) he continues to torment himself over what happened years before and Soichi (Yosuke Eguchi) and his wife Yoko (Tae Kimura), who is struggling with life as a housewife, no longer seem as close-knit as they once were.
This situation is destined to worsen further when the BNM (Bureau of Ninja Management) informs us that the Fuma has returned stronger and more vengeful than ever. House of Ninjas takes us inside the strange Tawara family, essentially the last Japanese family of Ninjas existing in Japan, however, at the request of the head of the family Soichi (Yosuke Eguchi), has now decided to hang up their swords and grappling hooks, so to speak, after the death of the firstborn. Haru (Kento Kaku), the second son, however, doesn’t want to have to work in the sake factory with which his father tried to create an alternative to the path of the shinobi. Lonely, almost misanthropic, his only occasional companion is Karen (Riho Yoshioka), a girl who often has dinner with him after the work shift. To disturb this monotony, the return of the dangerous Fuma, a rival clan of bloodthirsty and very dangerous Ninjas, seemed to have disappeared for some time.
Soichi doesn’t want to get involved, even when the Ninja Management Bureau shows up, he refuses to let his family go back on a war footing. But in short, he will have to accept a simple fact: in addition to Haru, the other members of the family also feel that they lead a life that is a lie, in which the arts of which they are masters are hidden and mortified instead of being put at the service of Japan and its inhabitants. House of Ninjas certainly has many unexpected ingredients for those hoping for a massacre that would bring back to life what a cult-like Ninja Assassin was 15 years ago. Here, however, the register chosen is halfway between the family sit-com and the martial action, with comic inserts in which the mockery of a society, the Japanese one, finds its way where bureaucracy, stringent rules, and mental rigidity are enemies as dangerous as the more treacherous than ninjas.
In the end, everything resembles a genre operation with a bittersweet tone, given that laughter and parody aside, the themes of violence and guilt remain stable. Excellent direction, with incredibly well-made action scenes, House of Ninjas perhaps suffers from an excess of manners, from a desire to be too light-hearted. However, you cannot deny the enormous attention to detail, and the ability to make each character distinguishable, unique, and also quite in-depth. There is no shortage of references to the Ninjas of cinema and animation, indeed the series often plays on this, even though it cannot claim the caliber of a masterpiece like Blu Eye Samurai.
House of Ninjas Ending Explained: What Happened to the Tawara and the Fuma Clan?
The Fuma clan is a family of ninjas who serve no lord but their cause. The new leader is Shikkoku, who proclaims himself a god while he leads the cult he created, called Gentenkai. He is then killed by Gaku, who saves Haru from killing another person. In the finale of House of Ninja, Gaku is the 20th Fuma Kotaro and meets Mukai Toko, a descendant of the Hujo clan who acts as a puppet for the Fuma clan. He talks about a scroll that he has. Meanwhile, Gaku gains even more strength. Meanwhile, the Gentenkai cult attracts around 30 thousand believers, through augmentative matters. The most important date of the cult is that of the solar eclipse, during which members will receive Sacred Dust. It is a powder composed of yellow flowers with strong neurotoxins that can kill anyone.
The members must spread it to kill many people in Japan. But the main objective is to eliminate many of the most powerful figures in the country’s politics. Furthermore, police and special forces are also targeted. The head of National Defense is also killed and replaced by a member of the Fuma. Thus, Japan is shocked and the superiors of the Ninga Management Office are also placed. In the face of Gaku’s betrayal, the Tawara family unity becomes a beacon of hope. The ending of House of Ninja highlights how each family member is facing their demons, supporting each other. Now they must work to pave the way for the country’s survival.
While his family returns to ninja work, Souichi is the only one who refuses to return to that life, since after the death of his eldest son Goku on a mission, his priority is to protect his family. However, his old enemies, the Fuma, are ready to return after the assassination of the 18th Kotaro Fuma. Haru helps Karen in her investigation and after following some clues they arrive at Gentenkai, a religious sect headed by Yasuke Tsujloka, the same man whose life Souichi’s second son spared six years ago and murdered his brother Gaku shortly after. When Karen and her ally end up facing Yasuke Tsujloka, Haru discovers that it is the nineteenth Kotaro Fuma, who allows them to leave and take the mysterious flower with which the people on the cruise were poisoned, but Haru is in charge of disappearing all the evidence.
Later, Yoko and Nagi end up surrounded by members of the Fuma clan, but Souichi arrives just in time to save them. When they return home they meet Haru and Karen, who must stay with them because she is a target of Fuma. Riku, the youngest of the Tawara, discovers that he is a descendant of Hanzo Hattori and that that is his true surname. After his conversation with the Tawara, Hama tricks the only survivor of the cruise into revealing part of the Fuma’s plan: they wait for the solar eclipse to open the Demon Gate with the scroll and carry out a mass murder. The members of the “House of Ninjas” receive the news that Gaku is alive and that he is supposedly a prisoner of the Fuma.
Meaning of the Ending
Although the Ninja Management Office believes that Gaku is a spy for the Fuma, the Tawara family is happy with the return of the eldest son. However, the grandmother fears that her grandson’s goal is to take possession of the scroll that Gentenkai desperately seeks. One night, Nagi follows her brother and sees him killing the police officer who was part Gentenkai. In the penultimate episode of House of Ninjas, it is revealed that Kotaro Fuma 19 rescued Gaku, who fell into the water and became trapped in one of the propellers and lost a leg. Soichi and Yoko get closer to the sinister conspiracy, while Riku, Nagi, and Grandma face an unprecedented challenge in their own home. Ayame, the faithful follower of Kotaro Fuma 19, and other members of the clan arrive at the Tawara house in search of the scroll. After an arduous shinobi fight, the enemies corner the grandmother and her grandchildren. Gaku appears but admits to being from the Fuma clan and takes the valuable item. As Gentenkai prepares to use the neurotoxins from the yellow flowers to attack several people, including members of the National Democratic Party, the Tawara must band together to protect their honor and save their lives before a solar eclipse.
Haru confronts his brother Gaku and defeats him. But he refuses to kill him and heads to confront Kotaro Fuma 19. While the rest of the Tawara also confront the Fuma, Haru corners Kotaro Fuma 19 but doesn’t seem willing to kill him, so Gaku does it for him and becomes the twentieth Kotaro Fuma, and meets Mukai Toko, a descendant of the Hojo clan. When the solar eclipse occurs, Karen realizes that the traffic event will occur at the scheduled rally. At the end of “Shinobi no Ie: House of Ninjas the Fuma take over the police, National Defense, and even the Ninja Management Office.
