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Original Title: Fukuro no Shiro
Company: Toho Company Production Year: 1999 Format: 16:9 Widescreen - Color - 138 mins - English Subtitles Cast: NAKAI Kiichi, TSURUTA Mayu, HADUKI Riona, IWASHITA Shima Directed by: SHINODA Masahiro Where to Buy: www.cdjapan.co.jp |
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In 1581 Japan's most powerful warlord, Nobunaga Oda, with 50, 000 soldiers, wages war on the province of Iga. The area is targeted because it is the center of "shinobi," the martial art practiced by Ninja. Nobunaga had become concerned that the Ninja were gaining power and could cause disorder among clans that might result in civil war. Ten years later, Nobunaga's successor, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, unifies the country as Shogun. Juzo (Kiichi Nakai), one of the few survivors of Nobunaga's carnage, is a skilled Ninja. After fleeing from Iga, he stays in the mountains like a hermit until his former master gives him the mission to go to Kyoto, the capital, to assassinate Shogun Hideyoshi. This gives Juzo a chance also to avenge the massacre of his family at the hands of Nobunaga. |
