Movie: Mission: Iron Castle

Top 10 Billed Cast

Hiroki Matsukata
松方弘樹

Yoshiro

Toru Minegishi
峰岸徹

Kōjirō Hongō
本郷功次郎

Michiyo Yasuda
大楠道代

Yôko Namikawa
南美川洋子

Shiho Fujimura
藤村志保

Taketoshi Naitō
内藤武敏

Rokkō Toura
戸浦六宏

Saburo Date
伊達三郎

Asao Uchida
内田朝雄

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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.

  • Release Date

    1970-02-07

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    6.286

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    日本語
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