Mission: Iron Castle (1970)
Mission: Iron Castle (1970)
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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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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Genres: Action, Drama, Crime, War

Language: 日本語

Release Date: 07 February 1970

Country: JP

Runtime: 79m

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Company Credits

Company: Daiei Film

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Cast

Directed By

Kazuo Mori

Kazuo Mori

Director

Writing Credits

Yamada Takayuki

Yamada Takayuki

Screenplay

Ryōtarō Shiba

Ryōtarō Shiba

Original Story

Production Crew

Not currently known.

Edited By

Costume and Makeup

Not currently known.

Sound

Hajime Kaburagi

Hajime Kaburagi

Original Music Composer

Iwao Ôtani

Iwao Ôtani

Sound

Visual Effects

Not currently known.

Camera

Fujio Morita

Fujio Morita

Director of Photography

Lighting

Reijiro Yamashita

Reijiro Yamashita

Lighting Director

Art Department

Other Crew

Not currently known.

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