Tenchu: Return from Darkness (2004)
Platforms: Xbox · PSPGenres: Genres · Action · 3rd-person (Other) · Stealth · Fantasy · Japan (Ancient/Classical/Medieval) · Detective / mystery
In a 16th century Japan suffering from rebellions and civil disorder, a powerful sorcerer seeks to gain ultimate power from an evil god and become unquestioned ruler. Player characters Ayame and Rikimaru complete several missions for their master Lord...
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Cast & Crew · 194 people
- Denise Walsh· VP, Creative Services & Operations
- Matthew Stainner· Marketing Creative Director
- Jill Barry· Creative Services
- Shelby Yates· Creative Services Assistant Manager
- Michael Wesby· QA Project Leads
- Paul Williams· QA Project Leads
- Anthony Hatch Korotko· QA Senior Project Lead
- Henry Peter Villanueva· QA Senior Project Lead
- Joseph Favazza· QA Manager
- Adam Hartsfield· QA Night Shift Manager
- Jason Levine· QA Third Shift Manager
- Hubert Cheng· Floor Lead, Database Manager
- John Macmillan· QA Testers
- José Juan Ornelas· QA Testers
- Judd Hollander· QA Testers
- Ryan Ellis· QA Testers
- Martyn Rentzer· QA Testers
- Frank Vasquez· QA Testers
- Guy Selga Jr.· QA Testers
- Elías Jiménez III· QA Testers
- Leviticus Davis· QA Testers
- Josh Feinman· QA Testers
- Chad Makings· QA Testers
- Jimmy Nguyen· QA Testers
- Jorga Houy· QA Testers
- Dustin Trimble· QA Testers
- Marilena Morini· Manager, Technical Requirements Group
- Sian Ada· Lead, Technical Requirements Group
- Marc Villanueva· Testers, Technical Requirements Group
- Taylor Livingston· Testers, Technical Requirements Group
- Aaron Camacho· Testers, Technical Requirements Group
- Bob McPherson· Sr. Customer Support Manager
- Gary Bolduc· Customer Support Phone Lead
- Michael Hill· Customer Support Email Lead
- Jim Summers· Activision Special Thanks
- Jason Wong· Activision Special Thanks
- Edward Clune· Activision Special Thanks
- Indra Yee· Activision Special Thanks
- Tim Vanlaw· Activision Special Thanks
- Nadine Theuzillot· Activision Special Thanks
- Michael Beck· Activision Special Thanks
- Todd Komesu· Activision Special Thanks
- Joule Middleton· Activision Special Thanks
- Willie Bolton· Activision Special Thanks
- Chad Siedhoff· Activision Special Thanks
- Jennifer Vitiello· Activision Special Thanks
- Jason Potter· Activision Special Thanks
- John Rosser· Activision Special Thanks
- Glenn Vistante· Activision Special Thanks
- Matthew McClure· Activision Special Thanks
- Nicholas Favazza· Activision Special Thanks
- Mike Rixford· Activision Special Thanks
- Tyler Rivers· Activision Special Thanks
- Paul Colbert· Activision Special Thanks
- Mitsuo Kodama· Director
- Masanori Kuwasashi· Chief Planner
- Tomoyuki Hosokawa· Planners
- Susumu Nakamoto· Planners
- Shinichi Shimizu· Chief Programmers
- Tadao Tada· Chief Programmers
- Takahiro Inoue· Programmers
- Kazufumi Yoshida· Programmers
- Osamu Matsuki· Programmers
- Takeshi Sasaki· Programmers
- Hiroki Sakaue· Programmers
- Masato Ōbuchi· Programmers
- Tadashi Shigeno· Programmers
- Kōichi Iwasaki· Chief Model Designer
- Yūki Tamura· Model Designers
- Takeyoshi Akane· Model Designers
- Hajime Itō· Chief Background Designer
- Hiroyuki Ōtani· Background Designers
- Masahito Inoue· Background Designers
- Hideki Fujii· Background Designers
- Nanatsu Yasuda· Background Designers
- Hiroko Yamamoto· Background Designers
- Katsuya Shinohara· Background Designers
- Kenji Tachibana· Chief Motion Designer
- Masanori Satomura· Motion Desginers
- Tadayuki Yamaryo· Motion Desginers
- Kentaro Isomura· Motion Desginers
- Shuuichi Kawata· Motion Desginers
- Shinji Kōchi· Chief Cutscene Designer
- Yasuhiro Satou· Cutscene Designer
- Masayuki Harada· Collision
- Saori Tanabe· Fonts
- Norihiko Inohara· Special Thanks
- Yōhei Nakajima· Special Thanks
- Kenji Yoshitsugu· Programmers
- Yūjirō Masuda· Programmers
- Jun Yoshioka· Programmers
- Shuhei Kawato· Programmers
- Masahiro Iwahashi· Programmers
- Koji Uehara· Programmers
- Youichi Sano· Programmers
- Masahiro Kawakami· CG Movies - CG Producer
- Hiroshi Nagano· CG Chief Director
- Naoki Taguchi· CG Animation Chief
- Shigeharu Shimada· Designers
- Kōsuke Takada· Designers
- Yoshihiro Ogawa· Designers
- Makoto Nagayoshi· Designers
- Atsuko Katakura· Designers
- Hidenori Kanbara· Designers
- Atsushi Yokoyama· Designers
- Junna Sato· Designers
- Ei Satō· Designers
- Takashi Satoh· Designers
- Yusuke Katayama· CG Producer
- Toshiaki Oshima· CG Director
- Koichiro Katsuki· CG Designers
- Masato Ishida· CG Designers
- Kris Zimmerman Salter· Casting and Voice Director
- Daniel Dae Kim· Actors
- Quinton Flynn· Actors
- Cam Clarke· Actors
- Michelle Kruisiec· Actors
- Keone Young· Actors
- Jennifer Hale· Actors
- Dee Bradley Baker· Actors
- Brian Tochi· Actors
- Ryan Yu· Actors
- James Sie· Actors
- James Kevin Ward· Actors
- Michael Gough· Actors
- Michael Yama· Actors
- Nick Jameson· Actors
- Barry Dennen· Actors
- Bruce A. Locke· Actors
- Earl Boen· Actors
- Koji Okano· Casting Directors
- Hidetada Soga· Casting Directors
- Sōichirō Kubo· Voice Director
- Toru Okawa· Actors
- Yoko Somi· Actors
- Katsuyuki Konishi· Actors
- Yousuke Akimoto· Actors
- Koichi Kitamura· Actors
- Ikue Otani· Actors
- Motomu Kiyokawa· Actors
- Koji Ishii· Actors
- Chikao Otsuka· Actors
- Kenji Hamada· Actors
- Hisao Egawa· Actors
- Daisuke Gōri· Actors
- Mitsuo Iwata· Actors
- Jurouta Kosugi· Actors
- Kikuko Inoue· Actors
- Yoji Ueda· Actors
- Jiro Saito· Actors
- Reiko Kiuchi· Actors
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi· Actors
- Yui Murase· Performed by
- Eiichi Miyazawa· Lyrics
- Noriyuki Asakura· Music, Produced, Keyboards, ProTools & LogicAudio Programming, Mixed & Engineered by, All Songs Composed & Produced by
- Kiyotsugu Amano· Acoustic & Electric Guitar
- Tatsuhiko Hizawa· Electrical Acoustic Bass
- Hiroshi Matsubara· Keyboards
- Tetsuya Ochiai· Strings
- Yoshiko Kaneko· Strings
- Yamato Sakuma· Strings
- Hiroki Mutō· Strings
- Takayuki Oshikane· Strings
- Takuya Mori· Strings
- Takao Ochiai· Strings
- Hiroshi Sugino· Strings
- Etsuko Hara· Strings
- Katherine Cash· Strings
- Rieko Kono· Strings
- Koichiro Muroya· Strings
- Haruori Morita· Strings
- Norihisa Ochiai· Strings
- Yasō Morimoto· Mixed & Engineered by
- Isamu Hanashima· Mixed & Engineered by
- Kentaro Kikuchi· Mixed & Engineered by
- Kentarō Kōketsu· Mixed & Engineered by
- Kazuo Kuwabara· Mastered & Engineered by
- Yoshitaka Ono· Player Assigned
- Tad Horie· Producer
- Hiroki Satoyoshi· Associate Producer
- Jacob Biegel· Production Coordinator
- David Grijns· Creative Director
- Jeff Matsushita· Senior Producer
- Takehisa Abe· VP of Studio
- Tabitha Hayes· Global Brand Manager
- David Pokress· Director of Marketing
- Dusty Welch· VP of Marketing
- Flora Lew· Finance Manager GBM
- Lisa Fields· PR
- Gregory Deutsch· Business Affairs
- Philip Terzian· Business Affairs
- Michael Larson· Business Affairs
- David Kay· Business Affairs
- Danielle Kim· Business Affairs
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