Castle of Owls (1963)

Original title

忍者秘帖 梟の城

Directed by

Eiichi Kudo

Genre

drama film, romance film, ninja film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ninja and a woman get caught up in a romance during the turbulent Sengoku period. The film follows their involvement in a political scheme that pits loyalty against love.

historicalseriousdramaticromanticatmospherictragicstylized

What happens

Fukurō no Shiro (梟の城, Owls' Castle) is the ninja-themed 1959 debut novel of Japanese author Ryōtarō Shiba, which won him the Naoki Prize in 1960 after the story was published by Kodansha. It has been adapted into a 3-part "Naoki Award Series" TV broadcast on the Fuji Television Network in 1960, and into two jidaigeki-genre films, Castle of Owls in 1963 and Owls' Castle in 1999. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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