Mission: Iron Castle

Name: Mission: Iron Castle
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, War
Released: 07 Feb 1970
Rating: 6.60
Cast: Hiroki Matsukata, Toru Minegishi, Kōjirō Hongō, Michiyo Yasuda, Yôko Namikawa

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.

Year: 1970

Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, War

Studio: Daiei Film

Director: Kazuo Mori

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata, Toru Minegishi, Kōjirō Hongō, Michiyo Yasuda, Yôko Namikawa, Shiho Fujimura

Crew: Kazuo Mori (Director), Yamada Takayuki (Screenplay), Hajime Kaburagi (Original Music Composer), Iwao Ōtani (Sound), Ryōtarō Shiba (Original Story), Reijiro Yamashita (Lighting Director)

Runtime: 79 minutes

Release: Feb 07, 1970

IMDb: 6.60/10 by 5 users

Popularity: 1

Country: Japan

Language: 日本語