Owls' Castle
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Directed byMasahiro Shinoda
Screenplay byMasahiro Shinoda
Katsuo Naruse
Katsuo Naruse
Based onFukurō no Shiro
by Ryōtarō Shiba
by Ryōtarō Shiba
Produced byShigeaki Hazama
Masaru Koibuchi
Masaru Koibuchi
| Owls' Castle | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Screenplay by | Masahiro Shinoda Katsuo Naruse |
| Based on | Fukurō no Shiro by Ryōtarō Shiba |
| Produced by | Shigeaki Hazama Masaru Koibuchi |
| Starring | Kiichi Nakai Mayu Tsuruta Riona Hazuki |
| Cinematography | Tatsuo Suzuki |
| Edited by | Hiroshi Yoshida |
| Music by | Joji Yuasa |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ¥1,300,000,000 |
Owls' Castle (Japanese: 梟の城, Hepburn: Fukurō no Shiro) is a 1999 Japanese ninja-themed jidaigeki film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.[1][2] It was co-written by Shinoda and Katsuo Naruse, and stars Kiichi Nakai. It is the second adaptation of Ryōtarō Shiba's 1959 novel Fukurō no Shiro,[3] the first being the 1963 film Castle of Owls.[4] Toho released the film on October 30, 1999, in Japan.
- Kiichi Nakai as Jūzō Tsuzura
- Takaya Kamikawa as Gohei Kazama
- Mayu Tsuruta as Kohagi
- Riona Hazuki as Kisaru
- Shōhei Hino as Kuroami
- Akiji Kobayashi
- Akira Nakao
- Mako Iwamatsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Jinpachi Nezu as Hattori Hanzō
- Kinnosuke Hannayagi as Ishida Mitsunari
- Shima Iwashita
- Masahiko Tsugawa
- Atsuo Nakamura
Production
Nintendo was a production partner on the film, and the use of special effects and computer-generated imagery was widely touted in the film's marketing.[4]
