Mission: Iron Castle
7.4
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.
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Part of Shinobi No Mono Collection
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Mission: Iron Castle
Movie · 1970
Cast
10 people
Hiroki Matsukata
Yoshiro
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Kōjirō Hongō
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Michiyo Yasuda
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Zatoichi
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Yōko Namikawa
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Return of Giant Majin
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Taketoshi Naitō
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The Burmese Harp
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Asao Uchida
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Irezumi
Kazuo Mori Director · Yamada Takayuki Screenplay Ryōtarō Shiba Story
First release February 7, 1970 · Produced in Japan · Production Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
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Daiei Film
Production
Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Production
Japan
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Original title
忍びの衆
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · February 7, 1970
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No release date listed for United States.
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